ABOUT ORBIS
YOUR PARTNER FOR ROBUST PLASTIC PACKAGING
Innovative 
Durable 
Sustainable
More than 170 years experience in reusable packaging
ORBIS is a part of Menasha Corporation, one of the oldest family-owned manufacturers in the United States. Since 1849, Menasha produces reusable packaging for different industries. Today, the company has more than 7.500 employees at locations throughout Europe, the US, Mexico and Canada. Since 2002, ORBIS Europe represents its parent company in the EMEA region with offices, production and storage facilities in Germany and Belgium. Our local team is there to support you with all needs around reusable transport packaging solutions.
Sustainability is at our core
ORBIS plastic packaging solutions are sustainable alternatives to steel, wood and cardboard packaging, improving product flow along the supply chain and therefore reducing costs and improving profitability. Our foldable large containers and plastic pallets are used over and over during the course of their service life. As a manufacturer of transport packaging, ORBIS recovers, recycles and reprocesses the plastic materials into new useful products without entering the solid waste stream. Reusable plastic packaging helps reduce your ecological footprint and make a positive impact on the environment while reducing supply chain and waste disposal costs.
ORBIS Quality Policy
We are committed to providing the best value in products and services for our Customers, a continuous improvement environment for our employees and long-term growth for our shareholders. Best Value comes from meeting our Customer´s expectations. Continuous improvement is driven by monitoring, assessing and responding to key business indicators. Long-term Growth is enabled by achieving these objectives.
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Certificate ISO 9001
2022-2025
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Facts
Founded
1849
(Menasha)
Employees
3.000
Our Locations
History
As a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation, ORBIS has a rich history in packaging. For more than 170 years, Menasha Corporation has been dedicated to a customer-focused approach to providing a diversified offering of high quality packaging products and services for a wide variety of industries. Menasha steps beyond traditional thinking: the great success comes from their unfailing foresight and courage to develop new products and expand into new markets. ORBIS Europe is part of today’s growth strategy outside of the US headquarters.
1849
A small wooden pail factory was founded in Menasha, Wisconsin, producing safe, efficient packaging for different products.
1863
Several hundred miles away, G.B. Lewis was founded. Then, with a newly developed machine, Lewis started producing high-performance wooden boxes.
1949
Lewis designed the first fiberglass tote pan that was a lightweight, durable, low-cost alternative to wood boxes.
1973
The Menasha Corporation introduced a reusable plastic pallet product line.
1996
Menasha created ORBIS. Now customers had one source for high quality plastic reusable containers, pallets, custom interior dunnage and engineering services.1997
2007
ORBIS became North America’s leader in plastic reusable packaging with its acquisition of a major bulk container manufacturer.
2016
ORBIS comes to Europe opening a European headquarter in Cologne in August 2016.
2017
ORBIS Europe launches the GitterPak®, an all-plastic collapsible plastic pallet box designed to replace metal gitter boxes and steel bins.
2018
ORBIS Europe launches the IonPak, the first bulk packaging solution to safely transport lithium ion batteries.2021
In 2021, we celebrated our 25 year anniversary as ORBIS Corporation. We shared 25 stories of ORBIS’ journey. As part of 170+ year old Menasha Corporation, we help our customers create sustainable supply chains.
2023
In January 2023, ORBIS has expanded its presence on the European market with a new distribution center and offices in Ieper, Belgium. With a clean environment on 2.300 sqm, the new packaging distribution center is used for sensitive and complex packaging solutions and inhibits contamination during packaging assembly and storage.