Alvin Schissel and Gordon Willson founded Shadow Plastics in 1970 as a reprocessor of poly film. Several years later, Alvin gained sole ownership of the company and Shadow Plastics began to blow its own low-density film. Alvin retired in 1992, handing down the company to the second generation of the Schissel family.

Today, Shadow Plastics is a Rice Lake Weighing Systems company owned by the Johnson family. We continue to grow and innovate in the polyethylene film market.