Our History
The Beginning
Fleenor Paper Company was established in 1962 by LeRoy Fleenor. Working as a typesetter and printer for a local newspaper company, he noticed a salvaging opportunity to utilize “waste paper” thrown into dumpsters daily. LeRoy created a homemade sheeter he pieced together with plywood, old pipes, a discarded motor, even his wife’s old carving knife. Reminiscent of other entrepreneurs, the business started in his garage where he used this sheeter to convert scrap paper into sheeted newsprint. Soon he sold his first pallet to Macy’s Movers, founding Fleenor Paper Company. By the late 1970s, LeRoy had acquired and constructed several machines to service the moving and storage, printing and packaging industries throughout Northern California.
The Next Generation
In the early 1980s, LeRoy sold his business to his son, Bill Fleenor and his wife, Janine Rochex. The couple soon introduced siblings Rebecca Fleenor and John Rochex to the family business. The four of them grew the company, relocated to a larger facility in Oakland, CA and opened distribution warehouses in Hawaii and Alaska. Today these warehouses provide a full range of packaging materials made by Fleenor’s manufacturing facilities, as well as products from other suppliers.
By the early 2000s, Rebecca Fleenor and John Rochex took over as sole proprietors of Fleenor Paper Company. In 2010 we brought in the next generation of Fleenor, LeRoy’s grandson, Russell Rolland and John’s daughter Corina Rochex. Together we look forward to continuing the tradition of the family run business.