Seal Right

Address: 100 State St, Fulton, New York 13069

Sealright’s history started in 1886, when a mill owner from Skaneateles, Forrest G. Weeks, formed the Oswego Falls Pulp and Paper Company. Along came Dr. Wilbur Wright and Eugene Skinner, who bought the company from Weeks and formed the Sealright Container Company in 1917. At first, the factory focused on goods like milk bottle caps and megaphones, but the product development department regularly tested innovative ideas, and by the 1930s Sealright had patented a process to plastic coat paper containers. In 1983, the 450 Sealright employees banded together to purchase the company from Phillips. But economic times were tough, and finally the local plant was purchased by Huhtamaki, a company from Finland. Today Huhtamaki is big economically for Fulton, producing 600 well-paid jobs.