Business View Magazine | April 2020

58 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE APRIL 2020 ts LLC V onco Products LLC, based in Trevor, Wisconsin, is a contract manufacturer of custom flexible packaging for the healthcare, consumer, industrial, and animal health markets. What makes Vonco unique is its ability to take on the most difficult flexible packaging problems, providing their customers with elegant solutions that meet, or exceed, expectations. By combining ingenuity and innovation with shapes, features, and fitments the company is able to create all sorts of liquid- tight packaging solutions that go well beyond traditional, rectangular plastic bags, including custom printed pouches, bag-in-box, stand-up pouches with spouts, bulletproof biohazard transport, fluid collection, fitted infection prevention device covers, and much more. If it can be imagined, Vonco can create it. Vonco was established in 1955 as a family business building sealing equipment for bags. It was acquired in 2013 by its current President, Keith Smith, whose background in flexible packaging helps maintain the company’s pioneering spirit. Today, Vonco employs 115 associates who work out of the company’s new 80,000-sq.-ft., ISO 9001-certified facility in Trevor, close to its former building in Lake Villa, Illinois. “It was important that we didn’t lose any of our associates with the move,” says Smith. “We have a highly technical workforce, so we weren’t interested in going too far.” Aside from the impressive breadth displayed in the company’s healthcare and consumer product AT A GLANCE VONCO PRODUCTS LLC WHAT: A manufacturer of customized flexible containers for healthcare and retail markets WHERE: Trevor, Wisconsin WEBSITE: www.vonco.com