Langston Companies, Inc.

From a modest beginning in 1946, Langston Companies, Inc. has become a full line independent U.S. bag company. The company is primarily a converter of paper and woven textiles into sacks, bags, wrappings, containers, and covers.

This family business is under the leadership of the founders two sons: R.E. "Bob" Langston, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Dudley Langston, Vice-President and General Manager of the firm's Cotton packaging Division.

The company is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee at one of three large manufacturing plants operated by Langston. Multiwall paper shipping sacks are made at a modern facility located in West Memphis, Arkansas. The Memphis location is the principal manufacturing site for the firm's cotton bale packaging products, textile bags, and provides general and administrative offices for the entire company. Flexible intermediate bulk containers are produced at the company's Louisiana subsidiary, Continental Bag Company, Inc. located in Crowley, Louisiana.

Light manufacturing and regional distribution are accomplished at five additional warehouse locations in Lubbock, Texas; Tulare, California; Monterrey, Mexico; Phoenix, Arizona; and Delray Beach, Florida.

Multiwall paper shipping sacks account for the largest segment of activity undertaken by the company. Products include: sewn open mouth, pasted valve stepped end, pinch bottom open mouth, pasted open mouth and self-opening satchel bags of all sizes and constructions. Printing capability is highly developed utilizing up to eight colors in both process and regular flexographic printing technology.

The company's Textile Division, with manufacturing in Memphis, TN and Crowley, LA, produces woven textile bags in two basic groups, flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBC's) and traditional textile POLYWEVE bags. FIBC's are designed to carry and easily discharge 1,500 to 3,300 lbs. of dry flowable granular products. This product enjoys steady growth as more and more shippers recognize the economies and efficiencies associated with intermediate bulk handling. Textile bags, for packing 20 lbs. to 50 Kg., are still the containers most prevalent in the grain, bean, and many export markets. The company has a long and distinguished history in furnishing this type package to major U.S. food and industrial companies. Langston offers printed textile bags, 1 or 2 sides, up to 6 colors.