From a writer on the staff of the New York World-Telegram to a Madison Ave. advertising executive, David Niss decided to make a significant career transition. In 1949, he purchased the Stonington Paper Tube Company of Mystic, Connecticut, an enterprise far removed from his earlier endeavors.
The Stonington Paper Tube Company had been operating in Mystic, Connecticut, for an extended period. To increase accessibility to its customers and reduce freight and transportation costs, Mr. Niss relocated his company to Holyoke in early 1955. The company shipped its products to paper converters in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and New York.
Stonington Paper Tube Company relocated to the former Parsons Paper division of the American Writing Paper Company mill on Gatehouse Road. The mill area covered approximately 13,000 square feet. Other companies situated in the factory building owned by the Holyoke Water Power Company included the Laminated Papers Company and the A. A. Patch Company, a vulcanizer.
Stonington was a manufacturer of paperboard. fiber, tubes, cores, and round containers for the paper, plastics, textile, and packaging industries. Toilet tissue rolls, gift wrap cores, mailing containers, and talcum powder boxes were among its products.
In 1958 and 1961, the company was approved for Small Business Administration loans, which were used to acquire updated equipment for its 19-employee business. New tube-winding equipment enabled the company to increase production by 30%.
The company was outgrowing its space. After exhaustive efforts to secure suitable existing or new building space in Holyoke were unsuccessful, the company relocated to Easthampton in 1964. The company purchased the former Hampton Mills building at 45 Ferry Street, thereby doubling its available space to 26,000 square feet.
In mid-1989, Stonington Corp. relocated to a new factory building at 61 Turnpike Industrial Road in Westfield. In 1996, Stonington Corporation was sold to Sonoco Products Company of Greenville, South Carolina.
Citations:
Newspapers.com (paid subscription): Citations: Holyoke (Massachusetts) Transcript & Transcript-Telegram; Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican; The Greenville (South Carolina) News; The Day, New London, Connecticut; publication dates and pages are shown.
Ancestry.com (paid subscription): Price & Lee Holyoke, Massachusetts, City Directories
Hampden County Registry of Deeds, Springfield, Massachusetts
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