Company History
In 1999 Cartonplast GmbH of Germany established Cartonplast USA to expand the success in Europe to the United States. By 2001 the first service and cleaning center began in Lafayette, Indiana. A manufacturing plant for corrugated plastic and glass tier sheets was built in DeForest, Wisconsin in 2004, and became known as CORBI Plastics LLC in 2005. CORBI is a joint venture of Cartonplast GmbH and Orbis Corporation.
CORBI takes its experience from three parent companies Cartonplast GmbH, Karton SPA and the Orbis Corporation. Cartonplast is a service and cleaning company in Europe with an 85 percent market share in the beverage container industry. Karton, Europe’s most innovative sheet manufacturer, provides expertise in both corrugated and solid sheet plastics. Orbis Corporation is America’s leading pallet and top frame manufacturer supplying the beverage industry in the United State, Mexico and Europe.
Together, CORBI’s parent companies have more than 90 years of experience in the fields of specialized industrial manufacturing, pooling logistics management and sanitation of plastic dunnage. CORBI supports 35 container plants supplying 200 fillers in the United States alone. CORBI manages more than 10 million sheets in service and more than 75 million sheet trips per year.
CORBI combines its expertise in plastics manufacturing and comprehensive logistics management to provide the food and beverage container industry with a more efficient material and a more efficient method of moving that material through the supply chain.
CORBI’s nation-wide reusable plastic dunnage management program, CORBI 360° Total Dunnage Management™ offers supply chain services that are proven to eliminate the inefficiencies facing those who use and constantly repurchase depleting paper and wood dunnage. CORBI also manufactures a variety of plastic dunnage including plastic corrugated extruded sheets, solid and co-extruded sheets and layer pads.
CORBI’s process reduces the complexities of managing, tracking and cleaning a pool of packaging. By pooling dunnage resources with competitors, customers improve their cost structures, asset utilization and overall market standardization to keep their own product and processes safe and working as efficiently as possible.
Developed on the foundation of extensive experience in Europe and the United States, CORBI’s dunnage management experts utilize proprietary software and a logistics network that reaches across the United States. CORBI manages dunnage as it moves through the logistics loop from service center to filler to container manufacturer and back again. CORBI systematically tracks, ships, distributes, recovers, sorts, inspects, repairs, cleans, stores and replenishes reusable plastic dunnage.
With CORBI’s plastic dunnage management system, customers and industry benefit:
- Operationally – Plastic’s durability and reliability means operational consistency – a plant keeps running – no more line stoppages, no more dunnage shortages, no more worrying about last minute cross country dunnage shipments. CORBI keeps the logistics loop moving by ensuring that dunnage is always where the customer needs it, when they need it there.
- Financially – CORBI’s fully managed dunnage pool, featuring the continuous reusability of plastic, trims inefficiencies that drive up the cost structure facing those who ship, collect, dispose of and repurchase depleting paper and wood dunnage. The sheet cost per trip is substantially lower.
- Environmentally – Not only will customers, and the industry as a whole, reduce their paper and wood waste by reusing plastic again and again, 100 percent of CORBI plastics are recycled. Customers will also count on a high-level of industrial sterility that eliminates sanitation risks. Furthermore, CORBI offers full inspection and cleaning services that meet food grade and HACCP requirements.
