March 1953 page 13

[image: DURHAM CONTAINER HAS REMODLED THIS MILL INTO MODERN, EFFICIENT BOX PLANT.]

DURHAM CONTAINER COMPANY
Box cars team with box plant to turn out boxes by the thousands

THE "Jean B." could be the name
of a tugboat at Hampton Roads or
a luxury yacht on Biscayne Bay. You
would never associate the name with a

[image: OFFICIALS of the company include Vice Presi-
dent Burnham and Sales Manager R. E. Wainscott.]

big corrugating machine which spews
out sheets of corrugated board like
newspapers off a high-speed press.

The "Jean B.", named for the vice
president's wife, is an important piece
of machinery at the Durham Container
Company, one of the Bull City's young-
est and most prosperous industries. It
stretches 125 feet across the floor of
one of the company's buildings and
contents itself with pressing and roll-
ing and gluing all day long. It makes
the essential ingredient that is needed
to manufacture the thousands of cor-
rugated shipping containers turned out
by the company every day.

13 years in Durham

Durham Container, a subsidiary of
the Jackson Box Company of Cincin-
nati, established itself in Durham in
1940 in the building which former-
ly housed the Durham Cotton Manu-
facturing Company. Although its be-
ginnings were modest enough, it has
grown into a substantial organization
which employs more than 120 people

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