Manufacturing 2019 Manufacturing Week Bus Tour | Page 14

Seattle-Tacoma Box Co.
Kent
This company was founded in 1889 on the spot now occupied by the
Amazon headquarters. After 130 years, it’s still family-owned and innovative,
creating its own custom equipment. The company’s latest popular product is
“store-to-door” wooden storage vaults.
Left: Zenovia Harris, Kent Chamber of Commerce.
Lower left: Ferd Nist, president of the Seattle-
Tacoma Box Co., and his granddaughter, Erika,
a public relations and sustainability leader at the
company (and one of four members of the sixth
generation of the family to work at the firm).
Below: A wall display of historic box fronts.