Standfast Group, LLC

founded in 1967 by john carman, standfast is a chicago-based company of midwestern values—reliable, transparent, flexible, respectful and respected—with a national reach. for years, our area of expertise has been corrugated packaging: converting, printing, assembling and delivering it. no one did it better, faster or smarter. corrugated is still at the core of our company, but as the second generation of the carman family took over, we decided to think beyond the parameters of the business. we realized that, based on the way we embrace innovation and change, we were not in the box business, but in the solutions business. this means that many of the things other companies consider value-added—planning, consulting, design, sustainability, education—are interwoven into every one of our transactions. we don’t just help a customer with their packaging needs, we help them improve business overall. we don’t just contract with vendors and suppliers, we partner with them to create an effici