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Atlas Paper Box Company – Top Flight – Paper Boxes – School Tablets – Stationery & Envelopes – Chattanooga, TN

Apr 30th, 2016

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Ninety-four years and Top Flight continues to be an anchor for Chattanooga, TN and the School and Office products industry. Over 90 years ago, Top Flight began as a one-machine paper box manufacturing plant, then known as Atlas Paper Box Company. Founded in 1920 by H.T. Robinson, E.W. Macmillan, and the brothers E.D. and H.T. Bryan, Top Flight is still owned and operated by the Robinson family today—and is still committed to strong core values and quality paper products. – Top Flight Website

Corrugated Boxes Soho Ad @ Dusk

Jul 19th, 2013

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The Standard Paper Box – Montreal, QC

Oct 18th, 2010

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Sutton Folding Box Co. – 51 Union Street & Van Brunt – Red Hook, Brooklyn

Jun 19th, 2008

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Sutton Folding Box Co - Red Hook

Sutton Folding Box Co - Red Hook
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Corrugated Box – Wooster Street, June 2005

Mar 23rd, 2008

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Robert Gair – Brooklynite & Inventor of the Corrugated Box – Water & Adams Street, DUMBO

Mar 18th, 2008

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Robert Gair - Corrugated Box Inventor

Robert Gair invented the corrugated box in 1890.

Brooklynite Robert Gair was a printer and paper bag maker in the 1870s. He invented the corrugated (reinforced) cardboard box by accident: a metal ruler normally used to crease bags shifted in position and cut the bag. Gair found that by cutting and creasing cardboard in one operation, he could make prefabricated cartons that were a cheaper alternative to the wood and metal boxes that merchandise had been shipped in.

Gair founded a paper empire and occupied several buildings in the area, many of which still bear his name. Information found at Wikipedia by way of Forgotten-NY.