With his four-year-old son in mind at the time, Joe Sleiman says he knew more than 20 years ago he didn’t want to manufacture plastic produce labels.
The president of Accu-Label in Lakeshore, Ont., began designing paper stickers in the late 1990s, with the company opening in 2001.
“I spent a couple of years researching, and I came back and I said to the guys locally in the Leamington area, ‘We’ve got to go paper. My son is four years old. I do not want him biting into a piece of fruit and accidentally eating plastic. It’s just not going to happen.'”
Now, the business on the outskirts of Windsor in southwestern Ontario prints billions of labels each year, and has nearly 400 customers across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand.
