Operations
Dart Container Corporation is vertically integrated, which, according to the company, makes it "virtually self-sufficient". "We manufacture our own equipment, produce the raw material for our products, turn the raw materials into finished products and then deliver them throughout the world via trucks we own and operate. There are only a few things, like cartons, that we don’t produce in-house. We even have our own printing capabilities and make our own ink!”
Family Business ranks Dart Container 37th in their listing of family companies, with an estimated $1.1 billion in sales, and 4,950 employees.
Dart currently manufactures product in:
- Mason, Michigan
- Horse Cave, Kentucky
- Corona, California
- Quitman, Mississippi
- Lodi, California
- Randleman, North Carolina
- Plant City, Florida
- Leola, Pennsylvania
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Lithonia, Georgia
- Waxahachie, Texas
- North Aurora, Illinois
- Tumwater, Washington
International subsidiaries have factories in:
- Campbellford, Ontario, Canada
- Cradley Heath, UK
- Atlacomulco, Mexico
- Tijuana, Mexico
- Smithfield, New South Wales, Australia
- Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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