Like an excited child flaunting his favorite Christmas toy, Rich Henderson fervently grabs a beef stick from a table to show off Phenix Corporation’s newest food packaging product, CurlGuard.
“This is how most sticks look. You can’t stop these films from curling. It’s the nylon in them,” he says as he bends the ends and then lets go. “These are flat. You just don’t see these. Go look in a gas station. You’re going to be like, ‘Wow, whatever product Rich was holding up is incredible.’”
The Phenix co-founder is referencing the flexible packaging and equipment services provider’s significant growth in recent years. With two buildings in Elberfeld, Indiana, the employee-owned company is developing a third structure for its corporate headquarters and conversion facility. The business expects to complete the 39,000 square-foot project this summer.
“The demand initially drove the first warehouse investment in Elberfeld,” says Nick Henderson, packaging engineer and son of Rich Henderson. “That warehouse is now our engineering headquarters. We have a warehouse triple the size of that right behind it.”…