ABOUT ZCMP

Company History

Karl R. Zimmer, Sr. founded Zimmer Paper Products in 1930 with a stong personal commitment to provide quality products for the customers, to assure the welfare of the employees and to serve the community.

1947: The company was incorporated as Zimmer Paper Products, Inc.

1950’s: The company was first to be commercially successful at the coating of paper with high viscosity hot melts.

1968: Acquired the Specialty Pacific division in San Francisco.

1974: Zimmer installed the first state-of-the-art hot melt coater in the Western hemisphere and built a modern product development laboratory.

1981: Divested interest in Specialty Pacific operation.

1984: Installed a second modern hot melt coater-laminator and expanded the manufacturing facility.

1993: Zimmer installed a technologically advanced 8-color flexographic press.

1994: Zimmer acquired Custom-Made Packaging who was a leading supplier of film packaging to the dairy industry.

1998: Zimmer Custom-Made Packaging became a division of Norse Dairy Systems and developed a stronger interest in the ice cream market.

2001: 1849 Investments, LLC purchased Zimmer Custom-Made Packaging from Interbake/Norse Dairy Systems and the company became a separate entity.

2004: ZCMP began offering Die Cut flexible packaging products.