Ben Levine, COO and Marc S. Levine, Founder and CEO.

Welcome

Welcome to The UnitedCompanies, a family-owned and operated business with award winning package designs, patented materials handling systems, and world-class business practices. We are the leading contract packagers of plastic resin in the U.S. and, as the first in the country to offer contract packaging to the plastics industry, we are by far the most experienced. In addition to our extensive plastic packaging, warehousing, and rail facilities near the Port of Houston, we also provide:

• in-plant packaging and logistics services to major plastics producers, and
• trucking services, using both our own specially designed tractors and a large pool of owner operators.

Using high-speed state-of-the-art packaging and palletizing lines, our experts carefully control:

• weight accuracy
• cleanliness
• spillage

And with our proprietary software we can provide real time information to track the status of your order online. The UnitedCompanies not only ensures your high standards, but also lowers your overall costs.

If you are a producer, The UnitedCompanies can manage all your packaging needs within your own facilities. Some clients elect to utilize The UnitedCompanies at both their site and ours. We will work with you to determine the best means to provide the safest, most cost effective, and highest quality service.

Although The UnitedCompanies has grown so that we can meet any resin-handling needs you may have, we continue to seek innovative solutions to your problems. But our company offers more than the best technology. We have the personal touch to go along with it. You will find our professionals genuinely caring, responsive to detail, and always ready to go the extra mile for your company. You can count on us 24/7 to be totally committed to serving your packaging, warehousing, trucking, and packaging supply needs whether in your plant or ours. When The UnitedCompanies handles your distribution needs, you can focus on your core business—making or distributing resin.

Marc S. Levine, Founder and CEO
Ben Levine, COO

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History

Our business began in 1969 as United Warehouse, a small packaging operation in Leominster, Massachusetts, then a major plastics processing region for the country. In 1981, the family moved to Houston, Texas, to open UnitedDC. We were the first to offer contract packaging to the plastics industry. Today, as The UnitedCompanies, we have over 300 employees and package over 2 billion pounds of resin annually for some of the world’s foremost resin producers and plastic distributors. We are constantly seeking new and better ways to serve the plastics industry by providing Innovative Solutions for resin packaging, warehousing, processing, trucking, and related logistical services.

Clients

We are proud to say our clients include the world’s foremost resin producers and plastics distributors. A sampling of our client list includes:

Bamberger Polymers
DuPont
ExxonMobil
Formosa
Georgia Gulf
ICD
Oxyde
Pinnacle
Shin Tech
Sinochem
Westlake Polymers Corporation

Safety

At The UnitedCompanies, safety is our culture, not just a program. Our management and employees have earned over1,500 consecutive safe days at the DuPont Sabine River Works plant in 2000, with over 100 employees working 24 / 7 / 365.

Quality

Over the years, The UnitedCompanies have garnered a number of prestigious industry awards and recognitions, including:

• Marc Levine recognized as 2009 Small Business Person of the Year by the Small Business Council of America.
• UnitedSabine recognized by DuPont as having the best safety record of any contract operation on their Sabine River Works site in 2009.
  
• The UnitedCompanies awarded the Excellence in Practice citation by The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) in 2008 for our in-house training at our UnitedSabine operation in Orange, Texas.
• The UnitedCompanies are ISO 9001 Certified.
• The Walter E. O’Leary Award, sponsored by the Society of the Plastics Industry and the ACF, awarded for outstanding service to the industry and the practice of high standards of integrity.
• Innovative Business Practices Award, sponsored by Anderson Consulting and the Houston Business Journal, which was awarded for the creation of the Unibag.
• Solvay Polymers Logistics Supplier of the Year.

Environmental Responsibility

Marc Levine was a founder and first committee chairperson for Operation Clean Sweep. We continue to adhere to these principles and guidelines today. We strive to recycle or reuse all of our packaging materials. We have minimized dust emissions with our patented closed loop transfer system.

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Case Studies

Challenge
A major resin producer called us with an emergency. Due to maintenance problems in their plant they needed 5 million pounds of product packaged within the next 10 days. The product was being produced when they called. In addition, they needed the film for the bags and were not able to get their suppliers to respond within the necessary time constraints.

Approach
United immediately accepted the challenge. Using our strong ties within the industry, we were able to work with our film supplier to prioritize our run and produce the required film within 5 days.

Results
Within 7 days all product was packaged. The client actually found that the quality of the bag film that we provided was superior to the product they had been using. As a result, United not only was selected as the packager of choice, but also was asked to continue supplying the bags and other packaging supplies and materials.

United responded to an emergency situation, accomplished the objective ahead of schedule, and acquired supplies of a superior quality and faster delivery that the client was able to procure on their own.

Newsletters

Volume 2 Issue 3, Aug 2009

Volume 2 Issue 2, April 2009

Volume 2 Issue 1, Feb 2009

Volume 1 Issue 4, Dec 2008

Volume 1 Issue 3, June 2008

Volume 1 Issue 2, Dec 2007

Volume 1 Issue 1, Sept 2007

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Our newest polyolefins bagging line is the fastest packaging line in the Western Hemisphere, processing a remarkable 2,100 bags per hour.