Established in 1888, Frantz Company Inc. is one of the major suppliers of wood products to the meat packaging industry in North America and overseas. Based in Butler, Wis., it caters to meat packers and smoker manufacturers offering its products for producing natural smoke to flavor meat and poultry products. The company provides sawdust and woodchips made from hard maple, beech, birch or hickory logs, in addition to specialty woods. It also offers ice melters and a line of bagged floor absorbents to soak up liquids, such as water and oil. The company manufactures sweeping compound products for all types of floor and distributes a full line of dried granulated corncobs as well. Frantz Company Inc. is recommended by a number of smoke generators, including KartridgePak, Koch and Marlen, to name a few.