Seattle-Tacoma Box Company
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| Company type | Corporation |
| Industry | Wood products |
| Founded | October 21, 1889 |
| Founder | Jacob Nist |
| Headquarters | Seattle (Kent), Washington , USA |
Area served | International |
Key people | Ferdinand Nist, President |
| Products | Containers, boxes, crates |
| Brands | PerfectioNIST |
| Website | Seattle-Tacoma Box Company |
Seattle-Tacoma Box Company is a pioneering Seattle company established in 1889 by Jacob Nist and his sons as "Queen City Box Manufacturing Company." For over a century, the Nist family has continuously owned, managed, and operated the company, producing wooden crates, boxes, containers, and other wood products. Renamed "Seattle Box Company" in 1905, the business purchased a second manufacturing facility in Tacoma in 1922.
The two enterprises merged efforts in 1975 as "Seattle-Tacoma Box Company," opening a new plant in Kent, Washington. Governor Booth Gardner honored the Nist family and the company on its centennial in 1989, proclaiming the pride of the citizens of Washington for the company's "contributions to the economy of the state". In addition to wooden boxes and crates, today the company produces packaging supplies, bags, strapping, pallets, fuel pellets, portable moving and storage vaults, and seafood containers.