The Institutional Products Division of Atlantis Plastics, Inc. boasts one of the industry’s most impressive resumes for historical performance and innovation throughout the market segments it serves today. The dates listed below serve as key stepping-stones in the formation of the Sta-Dri® brand and its mission.

Mission Statement: Our mission is to be the world’s best-performing film company as defined by our customers, our employees, our shareholders, our suppliers and our communities. We will never accept second best!

To achieve this mission, we will be totally quality driven toward a customer-focused, never-ending commitment to individual, team and company excellence in everything we do. We will make sure that we, and our products and services, are unsurpassed by anyone with whom we compete.

Time Line:

1959	National Poly Products, Inc. is formed and begins producing film in the converted horse barn of the old Kato Brewery in Mankato, MN.

1963	Viking Plastics, Inc. is formed and begins producing bags on a single bag machine in Mankato, MN .

1967	National Poly Products, Inc. and Viking Plastics, Inc. are acquired by Northern Natural Gas.

1968	National Poly Products, Inc. and Viking Plastics, Inc. are liquidated and become divisions of Northern Petrochemical Co.

1969	National Poly Products Inc. absorbs Viking Plastics and they become a single division located in Mankato, MN.

1983	National Poly Products is purchased by Trivest

1987	Trivest goes public and created the Atlantis Group

1992	Corporate office is established in Atlanta, GA.

1993	Atlantis Group acquires United Plastics, located in Champaign, IL, adding to the table cover offering and introducing rotary bib and apron capabilities.

1994	What will later become the Institutional Products Division of Atlantis Plastics, Inc. moves to its current location at 1970 Excel Drive, Mankato, MN.

1995	The organization’s name is officially changed to Atlantis Plastics, Inc., formalizing the formation of the Institutional Products Division.

1998	Atlantis Plastics, Inc. Institutional Products completes the corporate re-branding of every product category, solidifying Sta-Dri® as the brand of choice in the institutional products market place.

2004

Atlantis Plastics, Inc. ranked number 7 of Georgia’s 100 Top Public Companies in an independent study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP based on five weighed variables: annual revenue, year-over-year revenue change, return on equity, annual change in profit margin for the fiscal year and total return on investment for the calendar year.

2005

Atlantis Plastics, Inc. ranked number 14 of Georgia’s 100 Top Public Companies in an independent study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP based on five weighed variables: annual revenue, year-over-year revenue change, return on equity, annual change in profit margin for the fiscal year and total return on investment for the calendar year.