Engineering Center

We design, test, prototype, validate and build packaging that protects billions of dollars worth of valuable customer product each year. Let FCA, the leader in industrial packaging solutions, design the packaging to protect yours.

FCA is unique in its ability to design, test, and prototype packaging products and solutions all in-house at its Design and Engineering Center.  In addition to the packaging design and prototyping services already provided by FCA, this state of the art packaging development center now houses additional testing equipment, including a hydraulic vibration testing table and an incline impact tester. With high speed video, accelerometers, and full diagnostic and reporting capabilities, FCA can provide your organization with tested and validated packaging designs without the need for a third party testing lab or engineering group. We can perform several testing sequences to ASTM standards.

Let us reduce your testing costs, lower your rapid prototyping timelines, and improve the packaging that protects your valuable product.

Testing

FCA’s state of the art packaging development center now houses additional testing equipment, including a hydraulic vibration testing table and an incline impact tester. With high speed video, accelerometers, and full diagnostic and reporting capabilities, FCA can provide your organization with tested and validated packaging designs without the need for a third party testing lab or engineering group. We can perform several testing sequences to ASTM standards.

With our suite of design and testing capabilities - CAD modeling, virtual fit up fit-up testing, ASTM testing, impact, drop, vibration and other methods - we ensure that we present our customers with designs and solutions that can be validated up front. This results in faster lead times to launch, higher confidence in our solutions, and a lower cost to you.

Design

The just‐in‐time, low volume, and custom nature of FCA’s product offering requires unique and specialized engineering and production capabilities. While the basic structure of each custom product may have similarities, FCA’s design engineering department modifies designs to suit the specific and ever-changing requirements of our customers to ensure products are securely positioned and protected.

In many cases, customers may use packaging designs only once, requiring both a qualified engineering group and flexible manufacturing capabilities to fulfill customers’ evolving packaging needs. With patent holding engineers on staff, and an Design Engineering Facility with CAD design and full testing capabilities, FCA provides our customers the flexibility to quickly and cost effectively adapt packaging solutions to product design changes while minimizing time and expense.

Design and production capabilities also include other protective and custom elements such as Vapor Barrier Packaging, VCI (Volatile Corrosion Inhibitor), Shock Isolation, ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) and MIL-SPEC applications.

Our proven 5-Phase Methodology is a best-practices road map to the design, development, testing, validation and implementation of your product.  For more information on our 5-Phase Design Methology, please contact us!

ISO 9001

We believe an important part of any company’s success is the ability to meet or exceed customer expectations. As such, FCA is certified to ISO 9001:2008 standards.  Our ISO 9001 certification underlines FCA’s commitment to its customers, to quality, and to ongoing process improvement.

FCA serves many of the most recognized and successful industrial products manufacturers in the world. These companies have high standards and expectations of their packaging providers. Typical, small-scale industrial packaging suppliers are often not able to meet the high standards required by such companies at the packaging level. FCA’s addition of ISO certification to its list of qualifications further emphasizes our commitment to the top OEM’s across the country and our ability to properly design and manufacture packaging to protect their valuable product.

For more information on ISO 9001:2008 Standards, click here.

Engineering

We design, test, prototype, validate and build packaging that protects billions of dollars worth of valuable customer product each year. Let FCA, the leader in industrial packaging solutions, design the packaging to protect yours.

FCA is unique in its ability to design, test, and prototype packaging products and solutions all in-house at its Design and Engineering Center.  In addition to the packaging design and prototyping services already provided by FCA, this state of the art packaging development center now houses additional testing equipment, including a hydraulic vibration testing table and an incline impact tester. With high speed video, accelerometers, and full diagnostic and reporting capabilities, FCA can provide your organization with tested and validated packaging designs without the need for a third party testing lab or engineering group. We can perform several testing sequences to ASTM standards.

Let us reduce your testing costs, lower your rapid prototyping timelines, and improve the packaging that protects your valuable product.

FCA Packaging Adds Testing Capabilities to its Suite of Design and Engineering Services.

FCA, LLC (www.fcapackaging.com)  the leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions, announced today the official opening of its upgraded Design and Engineering Center that now includes testing capabilities onsite.

FCA Packaging Announces the Certification of its Facilities to ISO 9001:2008 Standards

FCA Packaging Announces the Certification of its Facilities to ISO 9001:2008 Standards

FCA, LLC, the leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions, announced today the certification of its facilities to ISO 9001:2008 standards. The certification to ISO 9001 standards further emphasizes FCA’s commitment to its customers, to quality, and to ongoing process improvement.

FCA Adds Testing Capabilities to Engineering Center

25 Years and Still Growing

FCA Continues to Focus on Total Value and Excellent Customer Service in Custom Industrial Packaging

FCA to Begin Operations Creating 40 Jobs in Edgecombe County

Jeff Campagna, President of FCA announces a new facility in Edgecombe County.

FCA is an Illinois based custom packaging manufacturing company with production facilities throughout the US.  As the leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions, FCA offers a broad range of custom packaging that includes wood, steel, corrugated and hybrid products. FCA has selected to locate at the Kingsboro-KanBan facility to manufacture skids that will house advanced manufactured engines for Cummins, a large industrial company in the region.  The company will occupy approximately 40,000 square feet and begin operations within the next 60 days.  Initially the Company will employ 20 individuals with plans to grow to 40 employees

FCA to Begin Operations Creating 40 Jobs in Edgecombe County

10 Ways Our Sustainable Manufacturing Process Will Reduce Your Packaging Costs.

Recycled Packaging Options Can Save You Money

FCA Packaging Launches New Website and Brand

FCA, LLC, a leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions, announced today the launch of its new brand and content-managed website. The new site re-introduces FCA’s many value-added solutions, unique product capabilities, and design engineering services through readable and downloadable content on the site including case studies, resources, and an entirely new brand…

Case Study – Recycled Packaging Program Savings

Case Study – Parts Supplier Consolidation

Case Study – Cost Savings and Lead Time Reduction

Shipping Regulations

Government implementation of ISPM-15 shipping container regulations requires that wood materials used during shipping in and out of the US and Canada undergo heat-treatment or fumigation processes that insure elimination of wood-boring insects. All FCA plants are certified to supply ISPM-15 compliant products. Our goal is to work with customers to assess their individual needs, keeping in mind current shipping regulations.

For more information on ISPM-15, please click here.

A PDF version of the actual ISPM-15 written standard can be viewed here.

Thank you for your interest

Thank you for your interest in FCA. We look forward to the opportunity to provide you more information about how we can help your business and will contact you soon. In the meantime, if you have any questions or would like additional information, please call us at (309) 792-3444.

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Resource Center

Want to understand how we have provided value to the world’s leading OEMs?  Refer to the case studies below that highlight the specific value added products and services we provide to our customers.  You may also download FCA-specific reference collateral here.

Specialty Fabrics / Film

FCA has designed packaging products for manufacturers of specialty fabrics, specialty films, and various paper and plastics products.If the product you require packaging for is of high value, has highly protected, fragile or delicate surfaces, or requires packaging design with specialized protection, FCA can deliver a solution to meet your specific packaging requirements.  Whether you actually produce the products or build the equipment used to produce the products, we can package it safe and sound.

Energy Equipment

Many companies in the energy equipment space require durable, custom, yet cost-effective packaging solutions for their heavy, fragile, or otherwise hard-to-handle product.  FCA can design and manufacture durable solutions for your drilling, turbine, generator or solar applications.

Aerospace and Defense

FCA currently provides packaging solutions for manufacturers of aluminum and fabricated aluminum products.  For fabricators and manufacturers of products used in transportation, aerospace assemblies and sub-assemblies, or other applications, FCA can design and manufacture packaging to protect your product in storage and transit.  FCA has designed very customized packaging in long, wide, or otherwise custom dimensions and delicate applications to meet our customers’ needs.

Electrical Equipment

Many of our customers’ electrical, computing, and networking products require custom, yet cost effective packaging solutions for their heavy, delicate, fragile, large, or otherwise hard-to-handle product.  FCA can design and manufacture a solution for your industrial electrical, computing, networking, or other electrical systems products.

Engine / Component Equipment

FCA claims many of the best-known names in engine manufacturing as our customers.  Whether on- or off-highway, rail or other applications, FCA provides packaging for the engines, transmissions, turbos, radiators and other engine assemblies, sub-assemblies and components that drive your business.

Industrial Equipment

Many of the world’s leading OEMs of construction, agriculture and mining equipment choose FCA to package their valuable product.  FCA has been providing custom packaging solutions for heavy industrial equipment to many of the biggest names in the industry for over 20 years.  In construction, agriculture, mining, power generation, on- and off-highway, or petroleum applications, FCA has the expertise to design custom built packaging to protect the products that drive your business. 

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JIT Manufacturing

The just‐in‐time, highly customized nature of FCA’s product offering requires unique and specialized production capabilities. While the basic structure of each custom product may have similarities, FCA’s design engineering department modifies designs to suit specific and ever-changing customer requirements to ensure products are securely positioned and protected.

To do so, FCA’s production facilities require a combination of highly flexible and easy to change automated sawing, drilling and assembly equipment as well as the skilled, trained labor required to produce in excess of three million packaging units with over 27,000 different part numbers (and growing) per year.  And, given our multiple manufacturing locations throughout the country, as well as our Customer Proximity and Co-Location plant model, FCA provides product orders in typically less than 24 hours, often in less than 4 hours where we are co-located with you.  We are where you are, and where you need us to be! 

FCA also values the lean enterprise.  With several Six Sigma black belts on staff, and key management with Lean and Six Sigma expertise, FCA implements and applies lean and Six Sigma principles throughout its manufacturing organization, resulting in greater efficiencies, less waste, improved quality, improved response time, and ultimately, lower costs to our customers.

Co-Location Capability

We are where you are, and where you need us to be!  At FCA, we offer a unique Customer Proximity and Co-Location Capability that provides scale, JIT delivery and rapid-response service to our customers.  FCA’s facilities are generally located less than 20 miles from customers on average, and most are co-located at a customer site or within a few miles of our customers’ key manufacturing facilities.  Many of the plants FCA serves receive multiple truckloads of custom packaging products per day – all delivered on an efficient, just‐in‐time basis.  Many customers are accustomed to order turnaround times of only 15 to 24 hours as they rely on FCA to provide the critical protective packaging to ship their end products.  In most cases, emergency orders are received, manufactured and delivered within 4 hours.

With multiple manufacturing facilities across the country, and several more planned and/or in construction, we are where you are, and where you need us to be!

 

Leadership

Jeff Campagna, Founder and President

Jeff Campagna co-founded FCA 25 years ago and has been in the industry for over 33 years.  Jeff has an intimate knowledge and passion for the industrial packaging products category and its customers.  As the active executive of FCA, Jeff’s principal responsibilities include key strategic direction, management of key customer relationships, establishment of new locations including facility layout and design, operations and engineering/design management. With over 33 years of relevant industry and product experience, Jeff’s knowledge of custom packaging needs and customer requirements has assisted FCA in becoming the leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions that it is today.  Jeff graduated from Augustana College 1977.

Craig Borsdorf, Chief Operating Officer

Craig is the Chief Operating Officer at FCA and brings significant experience to the company in operations, finance, sustaining engineering, design services, supply chain, sourcing and lean and six sigma systems.  Craig served as a CPA for Arthur Andersen & Co., held various controllership functions and has spent the past 20 years in senior design, development, lean enterprise and operational positions, most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations at Flex Medical Disposables.  Craig’s operational duties include sourcing, supply chain, manufacturing and continuous process improvement.

David Wilsted, Vice President Sales and Marketing

David has been in consulting, sales, and business development for nearly ten years.  Before joining FCA as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, David managed the key strategic customer accounts for the world’s largest outsource manufacturer of medical devices.  David brings to FCA experience with managing business relationships at the executive and management levels of organizations.  He is responsible for directing all sales, business development and marketing activities at FCA.  David has degrees in Economics and Russian from Brigham Young University, as well as a Masters of Business Administration from the Marriott Graduate School of Management at BYU.

Carol Kilburg, Chief Financial Officer

Carol has been the Chief Financial Officer of FCA for the past twelve years. Prior to joining FCA, she was employed as the Chief Financial Officer of Mueller Lumber Co., a Quad City lumber yard with three locations.  Carol also served as a CPA for McGladrey and Pullen, a national accounting firm specializing in audit and tax.  Carol graduated summa cum laude from St. Ambrose University in 1979. Carol’s duties and expertise include finance, insurance, tax, accounting, payroll, credit, Benefit Plan Administration and inventory.

Greg King, Vice President Strategic Sourcing

Greg brings to FCA more than two decades of experience in the commodity forest products industry where he held senior sales and management positions for several different firms. In the early 1990’s, Greg served as Vice President and Sales Manager for IKA Lumber Specialties, Inc.  He also spent more than 20 years as a commodities trader and Senior Trader for the Forest City Trading Group . Most recently Greg served as General Manager of IPAC Forest Industries, the industrial sales division of Seaboard International Forest Products, LLC.  Greg’s responsibilities at FCA include strategic sourcing with FCA’s largest vendors, as well as supply chain and logistics. Greg received his BA from Allegheny College in 1987, and completed a graduate program in International Management at Harvard University in 2001.

History

Since its founding in 1985, FCA has been supplying a broad range of critical, highly customized, heavy‐duty, just‐in‐time industrial packaging products and supply chain services to many of the world’s leading OEM’s across several markets and industries. 

Established in 1985 by the current President (Jeff Campagna), FCA officially opened scale manufacturing operations in Rock Island, IL in 1989.  Over the next several years, FCA opened additional facilities across the country, including operations in Corinth, MS, Princeville, IL, Mossville, IL and Lafayette, IN, as well as headquarter offices in Moline, IL.  By 1997 FCA had been chosen as a strategic supplier to one of the world’s largest and most successful manufacturers of construction and mining equipment.

By 2003, FCA was providing other major customers with packaging solutions in multiple industries including aluminum production, agricultural equipment, and other industrial manufacturing applications. Manufacturing sites had grown to include Griffin, GA, Algona, IA, New York and South Carolina.

Since 2003, FCA manufacturing has added other facilities, including our Design Engineering and Testing Facility in Coal Valley, IL, with several more manufacturing sites pending and/or in construction.  With our unique Customer Proximity and Co-Location offering, we can provide manufacturing scale, JIT delivery and rapid-response service to our customers regardless of their current location.  We are where you are, and where you need us to be! 

In 2007 FCA developed a unique hybrid skid and pending-patent bracketry that allows our customers to have a reusable solution significantly cheaper than steel racks, but with greater reuse than traditional expendable solutions.  This hybrid solution has been adopted by multiple customers, and its applications continue to grow with new and changing customer requirements.

With a current and growing customer base key industrial industries, FCA has become the leader in custom designed industrial packaging solutions.

Value Statement

We provide our customers with a comprehensive packaging solution that includes custom design, manufacturing, and management of specialized packaging products, with an intense focus on total value, just-in-time delivery, and customer service.

FCA’s complete solution approach is uniquely tailored to large industrial manufacturers with complex and highly-customized packaging requirements.  Whether through our design and engineering services, our just-in-time manufacturing, or our ongoing management and tracking of your product, FCA can bring you total value through a complete and cost-effective solution for the entire enterprise.

 

About Us

Since its founding in 1985, FCA has been supplying a broad range of critical, highly customized, heavy‐duty, just‐in‐time industrial packaging products and services to many of the world’s leading OEM’s across several industries.  Whether you need wood, steel, corrugate or hybrid packaging products; expendable, reusable or returnable solutions, FCA provides comprehensive solutions that bring total value to your organization for your packaging peace of mind.

FCA’s unique products include custom engineered skids, crates, pallets, boxes and other unique packaging solutions that protect over a billion dollars of valuable customer inventory.  FCA also supports its packaging products with an array of value‐added services including design, manufacturing, testing, container management and tracking, recycle management and repair/refurbishment.

FCA.  Custom packaging solutions. Designed. Built. Managed.

Industries

FCA designs and manufactures custom packaging products and solutions for many of the world’s leading OEMs in the industries below.  Regardless of your industry, if your product requires packaging with unique and custom dimensions, is heavy, fragile, or is otherwise hard-to-handle or package, FCA can provide the required solution to package and protect your valuable product.

FCA, LLC Privacy Statement

Effective April 30, 2010. Last Update Date April 30, 2010. 

The following describes FCA’s collection, use and disclosure of information gathered from online visitors to the web sites owned by FCA, LLC.

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

This web site is the responsibility of FCA, LLC. FCA can be contacted by mail at 7601 John Deere Pkwy, P.O. Box 758, Moline, IL 61266, attention Corporate Communications or by e-mail at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The following Privacy Statement applies to http://www.fcapackaging.com and all other web sites, web pages and/or web properties owned and operated by FCA, LLC (collectively “Sites”).

1. Collection of Personal Information from Site Visitors

In order to access certain subscriber services or restricted areas within any of our Sites, we may require that you provide certain identifying information. This information may include your legal name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, subscriber name or screen name, password used to access our services, method of payment, and, if applicable, credit card number. We reserve the right to request any additional information necessary to establish and maintain your account for use of these services.

FCA may automatically collect and/or tracks (1) the home server domain names, e-mail addresses, type of client computer, and type of web browser of visitors to our web site, (2) the e-mail addresses of visitors that communicate with us via e-mail, post messages to our bulletin boards, or post messages to our chat groups, (3) information knowingly provided by the visitor in sales orders, registration forms, surveys, and contest entries, and (4) aggregate or specific information on what pages visitors access.

Some FCA pages use a technology called “cookies” so that we can better serve visitors when they purchase a product on our web site, request additional information about our company, products or services, or participate in various activities posted on our site. These cookies may be used to obtain data such as the visitor’s name, user-name, shopping cart, and pages or advertisements viewed by the visitor. When the visitor revisits the company’s web site, we can recognize the visitor by the Internet cookie and customize the visitor’s experience accordingly. Although cookies are stored on the visitor’s hard drive and not stored, in any form, by us, the visitor can set his or her browser to provide notice whenever a cookie is received, which gives the visitor the opportunity to decide whether to accept it or not.

Certain FCA Web Site pages may have software installed within the page which provides us with information about the “clickstream” of our customers during their FCA Web Site visit. This software indicates which pages the visitors came from, what navigational paths they took, and which areas of the site they visited.

Certain email communications you may receive from us, if you sign up for our email distribution service, may contain “Web beacons”. Web beacons consist of a line of code on our site that delivers a small graphic image from another Web site or third party ad server. They may not be visible as the beacon is generally a 1x1 pixel that is often designed to blend into the background of a Web page. We use may use beacons to monitor the effectiveness of ad banners in our email distributions.

2. Use of Personal Data Collected

Personal data collected by us will be used for marketing and promotional purposes, feedback purposes, for a statistical analysis of users’ behavior, for product development or enhancement, for content improvement, and to customize content and layout of our site. Names, postal and e-mail addresses, and phone numbers collected may be added to our databases and used for future contact regarding new products and services, upcoming events, status of orders placed online, and customer service.

3. Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties

We maintain a secured area on our Sites for transmission of personal data, and store all personal data in a private database which is not connected to the Internet. Although we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of the personal data you provide to us, transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. We will have no liability for disclosure of such data due to errors in transmission or interception by unauthorized acts of third parties.

We may, from time to time, make certain contact information about our customers available to third parties for the following purposes: we may disclose information to vendors who facilitate and/or support our customer transactions; we may disclose information to entities to whom we are legally required to disclose information; and/or we may disclose information to third parties with whom we have relationships through which permission-based marketing is conducted.

Any third party with whom we have a relationship pursuant to which we provide, rent, sell or otherwise disclose data collected from visitors to our site will be carefully pre-screened, determined by us to be reputable, and will use the data provided solely for marketing products and services which we determine, in our sole judgment, that visitors to our Sites might find of interest.

4. Opt-Out Rights

Visitors may opt out of having their personal information disclosed to third parties (excluding any mandatory disclosure to government agencies and/or certain vendors who facilitate and/or support our customer transactions), or used by us or third parties to send promotional materials to the visitor, by contacting us by e-mail or by checking the appropriate box on the online form.

5. Access to and Ability to Correct Personal Data

Visitors may access their personal information collected and maintained online by FCA by sending an email request to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or via automated form if available.  Visitors may correct factual errors in their personal information by sending FCA a request that credibly shows the error(s).  To protect visitor’s privacy and security, FCA will take reasonable steps to verify a visitor’s identity before granting access or making corrections.

6.  Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important.  For that reason, FCA never collects or maintains information at the FCA website from those that FCA actually knows are under 13, and no part of the FCA website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

7. Company’s Right to Contact Visitors

We reserve the right to contact site visitors regarding their account status and changes to any subscriber agreement, privacy statement, or any other policies or agreements relevant to site visitors.

8. Other Sites

Our Sites may contain links to other sites. Other sites may also reference or link to our Sites. FCA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites.

9. Company’s Right to Change Privacy Statement

By using the Sites, you signify your assent to this Statement. If you do not agree with the terms of this Statement, please do not visit our Sites. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Statement at any time. In case of any material change, we will change the “Last Update Date” in this Privacy Statement and/or post a notice on the site. Changes to this Privacy Statement are effective as of the stated “Last Update Date” and your continued use of this site on or after the “Last Update Date” will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.  Previous privacy statements and their applicable effective dates are available by contacting FCA.

10.  Notice to California Residents

If you are a California resident, you have the right to receive: a) information identifying any third party company(ies) to whom FCA may have disclosed, within the past year, personal information pertaining to you and your family for that company’s direct marketing purposes; and b) a description of the categories of personal information disclosed. To obtain such information, please email your request to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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P.O. Box 758
7601 John Deere Parkway
Moline, IL 61266
309-792-3444

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Solutions

FCA’s complete solution approach is uniquely tailored to large industrial manufacturers with complex and highly-customized packaging requirements.  Whether through our design engineering services, our just-in-time manufacturing, or our ongoing management and tracking of your product, FCA offers a complete and cost-effective solution for the entire enterprise.  We protect the products that drive your business.

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The Leader in Custom Designed Industrial Packaging Solutions

FCA offers a broad range of custom industrial packaging that includes wood, steel, corrugated and hybrid products, as well as expendable, reusable and returnable solutions.  Serving many of the world’s leading OEM’s for over two decades, FCA’s complete solution approach is uniquely tailored to manufacturers with complex and highly-customized packaging requirements.  Through design and testing engineering services, just-in-time manufacturing, and ongoing tracking and management services, FCA offers a complete and cost-effective solution for the entire enterprise.

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Industries

Below are just some of the industries for which we design, build and manage custom packaging.