Some would say that it all started with a family assembly line in the basement of Harvey F. Martinez’ Milwaukee South Side home. But it started well before that. After working his way up at well-known plastic packaging manufacturers in Wisconsin and Illinois, Harvey ventured off on his own as an industry consultant and a manufacturers’ representative. His penchant for chemistry, experience in product development, and likable personality landed him some of his first opportunities to provide pouch design and conversion services for medical supply companies.
“Dad wanted to build a family-owned company to the point where growing up we had an old pouch machine in our garage. We never did use that pouch machine, but it represented his vision from the start,” says Paul Martinez, Harvey’s son and current president of HFM Packaging, Ltd.