The Nelson Container Story. Nelson Container is a privately held company founded in the spring of 1962 by Jim and Pat Nelson. The company filled a need for a high quality, full service, box manufacturer, handling custom orders and specialty items. This is the market weve continued to serve. Nelson Container was originally located on 32nd and Hampton in Milwaukee for 7 years. The company was relocated in Brown Deer for the next 26 years. In 1990, a Service Center was established in Madison, Wisconsin. On September 15, 1995, the company completed its move from Brown Deer to a 92,558 square foot building in the Germantown Industrial Park on 11 acres of land. Today, Nelson Container employees close to fifty people. The transition of leadership has been made to the next generation. Tom Nelson is now President. We're committed: To making our customers better by jointly embracing the principles of customer-intimacy, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement. To providing strategic packaging programs to enterprises in southeast Wisconsin, consistent with their high expectations. To supplying our customers with defect-free packaging and services, competitively priced and on time. To demanding high performance, ethical conduct and continuous learning. To responsibly serve our employees, customers, community and stockholders. To being an environmentally responsible company by using material that is 100% recyclable.