Three generations. One mission. A river that connects them.

Over 70 years ago, our journey began in Montréal as a small family business, guided by a simple idea: serve our customers with excellence, and never stop earning their trust. Founded in 1954, Gould has grown from a modest workshop into a North American leader in recycled plastics, film extrusion, and private-label solutions, while remaining, to this day, 100% owner-operated and proudly in its third generation.

Our story is inseparable from the people who built it. Bert Gould, our founder and mentor, was an inventor at heart; the folded-bag machinery he designed in the 1970s is still relied upon in factories today. That spirit of ingenuity became our inheritance. We rebuilt this company from near-failure, from a team of seven, into a 150-person, fully integrated operation, by working every role on the floor and treating each customer relationship as a partnership rather than a transaction.

Specializing in private brands, we have always combined innovation, superior quality, and exceptional customer service to meet the needs of an ever-changing market. Today our products reach the largest retailers on the continent, including Costco, Home Depot, Walmart, Canadian Tire, Metro, Sobeys, and McKesson, competing on the same shelves as the biggest names in the category, under our customers' own labels.

But at Gould, we see beyond the bag. Waste is not just a necessity to manage, it is an opportunity to transform. Through full vertical integration, we turn millions of pounds of residual material into sustainable, high-performance products every year. We've reimagined what circularity can look like, from giving underused materials a second life in partnership with visionary customers to bold experiments that marry craftsmanship with environmental purpose. Every product we design carries the same commitment: that innovation and sustainability belong together.

In 2026, we wrote the most ambitious chapter in our history: our first industrial presence in the United States, with the acquisition of a manufacturing facility in Summit, Mississippi. After several years of searching for the right strategic fit, we found it: a plant of more than 100,000 square feet on six acres, served by a CN railway siding capable of holding 30 railcars, with the capacity to produce up to 80 million pounds of product and recycle 10 million pounds of plastic each year.

With our Montréal plant at full capacity, this expansion lets us scale to better serve the major retailers who operate across borders, while sourcing our plastic in the United States, reinforcing a truly continent-wide, integrated circular economy. It is a natural expansion, guided by the same North American corridors that have linked our regions for centuries. Together, our plants in Mississippi and Montréal total 180,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing.