Welcome to Our Web Site

Thank you for taking the time to visit our website.  Whether you are interested in thermoforming of paperboard or corrugated materials into paper plates or paper trays for frozen foods, bakery, or food service, our unique Hollybox gift boxes, or our pursuit of motorcycle land speed records, you have come to the right place.

Since our founding in 1991 we have been relentlessly pursuing our engineering goal of doing more with less so that you, our customer, can derive the maximum benefit from your dollars spent with us.  Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in our Paperboard Thermoforming Machines where Gralex has become synonymous with small, highly efficient and economical blank fed machinery.  Through the years, Gralex has been responsible for many of the developments in the paper plate and ovenable paperboard tray markets for frozen foods, bakery and food service through their association with several Fortune 500 companies.  Today, Gralex has grown to provide equipment and services for the thermoformed paper plate and tray industry in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and South America as well as North America.   

Our newest innovation is the development of technology to efficiently and economically thermoform paperboard or corrugated clamshell containers on the Gralex blank fed thermoforming machines.   This technology utilizes one or more of the patents co-developed with and licensed from a Fortune 100 company and can result in a paperboard savings of over 15% as compared to the competitor's folded and glued clamshells.

Another example of our ability to do more with less is our effort at designing, building and racing a 50cc motorcycle to achieve land speed records at the fame Bonneville Salt Flats.  The goal of this project has been to derive as much power as possible from the smallest possible engine, not unlike providing the highest possible benefit for the least amount of money for our customers.

We are glad that you have come to see what we are all about.  Take some time and peruse our site.  If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us through the "Contact Us" page on this site.  We will be happy to answer any questions, or just correspond with you at any time.

When I founded Gralex in early 1991, my goal was to create a company that would be a worldwide leader in innovation, quality and customer service.  I wanted myself and Gralex associates to be known as “customer servants” – the true meaning of customer service, to provide on time products and services that the industry recognized as being a good value and on the cutting edge, to develop partnerships with suppliers and customers alike, And…, I wanted Gralex be known as a company that has a positive impact on our customers, suppliers, industry and community.  In short, I wanted to develop a company with whom others would be proud to be associated.  - Gary Alexander, President

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