Burd & Fletcher Company, Inc.

Speed-to-market, innovation, package quality and integrity, plant efficiency and process improvement—all perfectly packaged in paper cartons, both folding and formed. Innovative food packaging not only protects your product, it elevates your brand. Burd & Fletcher has been helping some of the biggest brands do both since 1886. 

After digging deep to understand your packaging specifications, we customize our manufacturing process and create a system to meet your needs instead of tweaking your needs to our system. Almost without exception, every food packaging order Burd & Fletcher produces is custom—from the size roll of paperboard to the sheeted load and from the special colors in the ink fountains to the individual items printed on the sheet. Our manufacturing process from concept to consumer checks all the boxes for the perfect custom container. Not only is it the right thing to do, but also, it’s the best way to deliver cost-effective quality food packaging for you. 

Sustainability runs deep in every aspect of our business. We walk the walk in our commitment to the environment, as seen through our zero-landfill policy for paperboard, and our naturally temperature-controlled underground plant that reduces our carbon footprint, to name a few. Burd & Fletcher has also achieved Chain of Custody certification from the SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE® (SFI®), which not only audits our practices, but also those of our suppliers. The SFI® label on Burd & Fletcher products is your guarantee that we are buying wood and paper products from a responsible source, proven by a rigorous, third-party certification audit. 

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Burd & Fletcher is certifiably crazy about sustainability. Our commitment to environmental sustainability is evident by our collaboration with our suppliers, our processes and our internal ecosystem. We talk the talk and walk the walk. Our two underground plants in Independence, MO., are unique in our industry and highlight our commitment to sustainability.  We focus on our zero-landfill policy for paperboard by optimizing our process for all folding cartons and formed cups.  We are proud of our SFI/COC certification.  Specifically:

SFI®

We are part of the SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE® (SFI®), which not only audits our practices, but also those of our suppliers. We earned Chain of Custody certification from the SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE® (SFI®), which proves that our packaging is made from SFI® certified materials. 

Underground Facility

• We control the temperature and humidity in our facility naturally, which measurably reduces energy usage and provides a perfect production and storage environment.
• We use only all-electric vehicles inside our facility.

Waste Elimination

• We constantly find new ways to reduce the basis weight and caliper of our customers’ cartons and formed cups, while maintaining or improving functionality. This reduces total paperboard usage.
• We have a policy against mixing distinct types of paperboard products, because “mixed bundles” (a product with mixed paperboard types) cannot be recycled. Also, we have an automated collection system that confirms everything we are recycling is not a mixed bundle.
• We use virgin paperboard for our products. This means our suppliers are certified by the SFI® for being environmentally responsible in sourcing our paper products.
• We are COC certified. This means we use only certified products throughout our process, and we never use mixed bundles, making all waste 100% recyclable.