Helping businesses succeed in a world of unprecedented resource challenges. We are a knowledge-based company, delivering outcomes that create outstanding value for our customers.

Industries around the world are at a turning point. Global megatrends such as population growth, urbanisation, food, water and energy scarcity, labour and skills shortages and climate change are forcing companies to approach their business strategies in new ways. Meeting these growing resource challenges demands more than just sustainable solutions. It demands practical answers forged from deep experience, nimble application, and creative ingenuity that constantly reimagine the possibilities.

At Sealed Air, we partner with our customers to solve their most pressing resource challenges by delivering new solutions derived from our unmatched industry knowledge and expertise. These solutions create a more efficient, secure and less wasteful global food supply chain and enhance commerce through fulfilment and packaging solutions to protect the worldwide movement of goods.

Integrity

Every day, we intentionally choose to do the right thing – no matter the circumstance.

Determined

We think without limits to solve customer, company and societal challenges.

Collaborative

We are empowered to deliver on our commitments.

Innovative

We operate based on mutual trust and encourage diverse thinking to achieve a common objective.

Our Commitment to Sustainability

We're committed to leaving our world better than we found it

Demonstrating Operational Excellence
Sealed Air believes it must contribute to global solutions to continuously reduce the impact of our operations.

Solving Our Customers' Most Critical Challenges
Our innovated solutions are designed to meet our customer's sustainability needs in the face of today's biggest resource challenges – while driving economic growth.

Creating Shared Value Through Key Partnerships
As a global company, we believe there is an important role to play in addressing societal needs where we operate in helping people around the world to live better lives.

Facts and Figures

~16,300

employees

97

manufacturing facilities

120

countries/territories served

2630

patents and pending applications

$5.6 Billion

2022 revenue

39

packaging design and application centres

Sealed Air Corporation Common Stock issued

Our History

An improbable beginning leads to decades of innovation

Sealed Air started with two engineers and an idea for wallpaper.

In 1957, Alfred W. Fielding and Marc Chavannes set out to create a new wall covering by laminating two plastic sheets with air bubbles in between. Although their invention never caught on as interior decor, the two men discovered their new material’s light weight and insulating properties were very useful – first as greenhouse insulation and then as the packing material we now know as BUBBLE WRAP^®brand original cushioning. In 1960, Fielding and Chavannes founded Sealed Air Corporation with BUBBLE WRAP^® brand as the company’s signature brand.

From the start, BUBBLE WRAP^® brand original cushioning was truly revolutionary both as a product and as a value proposition. It could reduce total packaging cost by using less material, reduce package size and weight and reduce loss from damage. In other words, BUBBLE WRAP^® brand original cushioning promoted sustainability long before it was fashionable. To demonstrate its unique qualities and value, Sealed Air created special laboratories now known as Packaging Design Application Centres. These labs also educated our sales force about things like shock and vibration protection and worked with our customers to create superior solutions. From our earliest days, we weren’t just selling products – we were consultants. Today, the concepts of consultative selling and value analysis are the platforms from which we innovate.

The purchase of Canada’s Smith Packaging, Ltd. in 1970 and its subsequent rechristening as Sealed Air of Canada, Ltd., marked the official arrival of Sealed Air as an international company. The emergence of global growth, environmental awareness and a new era in logistics all played critical roles in shaping our business in the years since.

Our Timeline
The 1970s

Throughout the 1970s we expanded our product portfolio to include Mail Lite™ shipping envelopes and with the acquisition of Instapak Corporation "foam-in-place" cushioning systems. We developed foam and system technologies to meet the packaging demand for heavier products that offered on-site, just-in-time protective packaging materials. Sealed Air expanded into Western Europe in the early 1970s and the Far East in the late 1970s. We also continued to foreshadow contemporary ideas of sustainability. Our 1973 Annual Report put forth the prescient notion that "the selection of packaging materials which provide better cushioning, lighter weight and reusability is a positive step toward meeting all three sides of a crucial triangle: energy, environment, economy."
Our Timeline
The 1980s

The 1980s arrived and so did the floppy disk. Its role in data transfer expanded the demand for padded mailers. In turn, Sealed Air acquired Jiffy Packaging Corporation in 1987. In addition to adding polyethylene foam and other plastic and paper packaging products, we launched our first food packaging product by acquiring the Dri-Loc® absorbent pad line. The 1980s also marked the expansion of operations in Italy and Spain and the opening of a new Instapak® foam facility in the Netherlands.
Our Timeline
The 1990s

Throughout the 1990s, Sealed Air’s business became increasingly global. New plants were opened in Germany and Spain. In 1998, Sealed Air purchased the CRYOVAC® packaging business from W. R. Grace, to create the world's leading protective and specialist packaging company. Starting in 1941, CRYOVAC® brand food packaging protected food to sustain soldiers on the front lines of World War II. Since then, CRYOVAC® brand packaging solutions have revolutionised food packaging worldwide with vacuum shrink bags, laminates and case-ready solutions that extend the shelf-life of fresh food.
Our Timeline
The 2000s

The arrival of the 21st century marked an increased emphasis on growth and developing regions of the globe. Our innovations addressed the need for greater dining convenience, more energy efficient and environmentally friendly solutions, the effective movement of goods, and the needs of modernised healthcare systems.

In 2014, we announced our new global headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, relocating to a modern, state-of-the art, environmentally sustainable campus that became the headquarters for our innovation and development facilities and corporate offices. We broke ground June 2015 on our new campus, and employees began moving in at the end of 2016. We received LEED Gold certification for our global corporate headquarters and held the official ribbon-cutting for the new campus May 2017.
Our Timeline
Today

Our proven history of innovation continuously drives change and will set new industry standards for decades to come. Advancing consumer trends have caused brands to differentiate themselves through visually appealing case-ready solutions. The global food supply chain requires extended shelf-life and additional food safety assurance. Optimised packaging has created ways to use fewer resources, minimise product damage, and maximise velocity within e-commerce fulfilment centres. The modern era's on-demand lifestyle challenges manufacturers, retailers, economists and legislators in new ways. As a knowledge-based company focused on packaging solutions, we enable a safer and less wasteful food supply chain and protect valuable goods shipped around the world. We strive to be the global leaders in food safety and security and product protection.