2005
September 2005--Smurfit-MBI, proceeded with the official opening of its new high performance corrugated container plant located in Milton, Ontario.

The new plant employs more than 100 workers and specializes in the production of corrugated packaging.  Construction of this 250,000 square foot facility was completed on time and within budget.  Production trials were completed in April and commercial production officially began in May.

The plant is equipped with a new state-of-the-art BHS Corrugator that produces a consistent high quality of corrugated board.  Other converting and printing equipment, as well as a sophisticated production control system, was also added to this highly automated facility that has an annual production capacity of almost 2 billion square feet of corrugated packages.

2003
May 2003, Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation completed transactions with Jefferson Smurfit Group (JS Group), involving the exchange of SSCC's European operations for JS Group's 50% ownership.  As a result, Smurfit-MBI is a wholly owned company of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, the industry's leading integrated manufacturer of paperboard and paper based packaging and displays.

In July 2003, Smurfit-MBI announced the construction of a new high performance corrugated container plant in Milton, Ontario.  The Greenfield facility would increase manufacturing capacity to service the Southern Ontario and upper New York State markets.  In May 2005, the new Milton facility became operational.

2001
Smurfit-MBI announced the launch of Smurfit-Image Pac Display Group. An operation dedicated to the design and production of complex high-graphic displays and point-of-purchase units.

2000
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (SSCC) completed the acquisition of Montreal based St. Laurent Paperboard Inc. In order to take advantage of synergies and capacities and to better serve the Eastern Canadian marketplace, SSCC has asked Smurfit-MBI to manage St. Laurent Packaging, Burlington, Ontario and the two SSCC plants located in Buffalo, New York.

1999
MBI announced a name change to Smurfit-MBI.

1998
Stone Container acquired the 50 percent interest previously owned by MacMillan Bloedel and immediately resold this 50 percent interest to Jefferson Smurfit Group plc of Dublin, Ireland. The co-ownership of MBI by Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation and Jefferson Smurfit Group plc enables MBI to participate in the world marketplace while maintaining raw material supply sources and access to technologies in the corrugated paper converting industry, through the auspices of its owners. MBI remains a privately held business.

1994
MBI made a commitment to providing consumer packaging and point-of-purchase displays with the creation of Image Pac, a division of MBI. With specialty gluing, laminating, printing and co-packing capabilities this new company provides award winning packaging and displays for the retail marketplace.

1989
In March 1989, Consolidated-Bathurst Inc. was acquired by Stone Container Corporation of Chicago, Illinois, with its name subsequently being changed to Stone-Consolidated Inc. Effective December 31, 1990, MBI's corrugated assets became a limited partnership registered in the province of Ontario. The two limited partners, MacMillan Bloedel Limited and Stone-Consolidated Inc., remained 50% owners of the operations.

MBI was formed in response to the need to rationalize the over capacity existing in Canadian production facilities as a result of the 1982-1983 recession. Prior to 1983, a total of 18 corrugated plants were operated by MacMillan Bloedel Limited and Consolidated-Bathurst Inc. After combination the number of plants was reduced to 14 due to plant closures and by 1993 was further reduced to 12 plants as facilities became consolidated in an ongoing cost control effort.

1983
MacMillan Bathurst Inc. commenced operation as a national corrugated container company with the combination of the Canadian corrugated container divisions of MacMillan Bloedel Limited and Consolidated-Bathurst Inc. MBI was owned 50% by each of these companies. Both parent organizations had a long history of involvement in the corrugated industry through both the establishment of corrugated operations and the acquisition of existing facilities across Canada.