Atlantic Tape & Packaging

Recognized for evolving from a regional tape supplier into a nationwide packaging and automation partner that helps manufacturers reduce labor, improve throughput, modernize coding and marking, and connect materials with equipment and service.

Atlantic Tape & Packaging has been selected as a 2026 Industry Icon in Manufacturing & Industrial Innovation by The 2026 List, brought to you by Industry & Influence, recognizing the company’s 50-plus-year history, national expansion, automation capabilities, acquisition strategy, and focus on improving packaging operations rather than simply supplying boxes and tape.

Packaging is one of the most overlooked systems in manufacturing.

Every product eventually has to be contained, sealed, labeled, protected, coded, palletized, and moved.

When that process is inefficient, the cost appears everywhere.

Atlantic Tape & Packaging has built its business around seeing the full system.

From Tape Supplier to Operational Partner

The company was founded in Georgia in 1975 and spent decades expanding its capabilities beyond industrial tape.

Today Atlantic Tape & Packaging supplies packaging materials, equipment, automation, labeling, coding and marking, cold-chain solutions, print and mail systems, and technical service.

That breadth changes the customer relationship.

A supplier sells a product.

A systems partner studies the operation and asks where labor, material, or time can be removed.

Automation Becomes Central to the Value Proposition

Packaging automation has become increasingly important as manufacturers face labor shortages and higher throughput demands.

Atlantic Tape & Packaging works across case erecting, sealing, wrapping, bagging, labeling, void fill, palletizing, and other automated processes.

The value is measurable.

A machine can reduce repetitive labor.

It can improve consistency.

It can reduce excess material.

It can increase line speed.

And it can make packaging quality less dependent on individual operator technique.

The company increasingly positions automation as a bottom-line improvement tool rather than a technology purchase.

Acquisitions Expand the Platform

Atlantic Tape & Packaging has also grown through strategic acquisitions.

In 2025, the company completed its acquisition of Amerisource.

In 2026, it acquired SSI PKG in Richmond, Virginia, adding capabilities in coding, marking, labeling, and packaging solutions while strengthening the company’s Mid-Atlantic presence.

Those acquisitions deepen both geography and expertise.

A broader service network helps customers that operate multiple facilities.

Specialized acquired capabilities allow ATP to solve more of the packaging process under one relationship.

Sunrise 2027 Creates a New Readiness Challenge

One of the major packaging issues facing manufacturers is the transition toward 2D barcodes under GS1 Sunrise 2027.

Atlantic Tape & Packaging has been publishing guidance around barcode readiness, coding, and marking.

That topic illustrates how packaging is becoming more digital.

The package carries increasingly important data.

Equipment has to print it correctly.

Systems have to read it.

Operations teams need to prepare before standards become deadlines.

A packaging partner increasingly needs technology and compliance knowledge alongside physical supplies.

Fifty Years Creates Operational Context

In 2025, Atlantic Tape & Packaging passed its 50-year milestone.

That history gives the company perspective across multiple generations of manufacturing technology.

Packaging has moved from highly manual processes toward integrated automation, software, advanced materials, robotics, and traceability.

A company that has lived through those transitions can help customers distinguish between technology that looks impressive and technology that solves an actual operational problem.