- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Paper, Lumber & Forest Products
- Address
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- IPO Date
- Jan 2, 2001
- Business
- AEP Industries, Inc. (AEPI) manufactures and markets flexible plastic packaging films, primarily polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride products for consumer, industrial, and agricultural applications in North America. The company produces custom films for sheeting, tubing, and bags; stretch films for hand wrap and rotary pallet applications including pre-stretch and high-performance variants; food wraps under the SealWrap brand and private labels; dispenser boxes; plastic cast film bags and blown film fold-top bags; coextruded polyethylene films; canliners such as trash bags, retail lawn and leaf bags, and institutional trash bags; printed roll stock for food, beverage, bakery, and dry goods processors; unplasticized PVC films for battery labels and credit card laminates; agricultural films including silage, smooth mulch, and fumigation varieties; and disposable plastic products like table covers, aprons, bibs, gloves, boots, freezer bags, and custom imprints under the Sta-Dri brand. These offerings serve the packaging, transportation, beverage, food, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, construction, agriculture, and textile industries through direct sales and distributors. Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Montvale, New Jersey, with manufacturing facilities across the United States and Canada, AEP Industries operates as a subsidiary of Berry Global Group, Inc. following its acquisition in January 2017 for approximately $765 million in cash and stock. The company maintains its focus on flexible packaging films within Berry Global's Engineered Materials division, with no major recent acquisitions, partnerships, funding rounds, or strategic shifts reported in the last 1-2 years.