Kappa Van Dam is a Helmonds company that produces corrugated board. In 2008 there were 130 people.

The company was founded by Abraham van Dam and W. Stam in 1909 as a strohulzenfabriek. In 1911 Van Dam started to fabricate straw sleeves for himself. He involved a field at Karelstein, when he was still in the municipality of Aarle-Rixtel, which he bought from Piet de Wit. Here too, O. Henny worked, who first introduced the corrugated board in the Netherlands and had a straw carton factory on site. This was taken over by Van Dam and is thus the oldest golf carton factory in the Netherlands. Nevertheless, straw sleeves were still manufactured until 1945. The company was originally called Golfpapier- en Cartonnagefabriek Van Dam.

The company grew and could already use a giant corrugated cardboard machine that was 70 meters tall and produced 4.2 km of corrugated board per hour in 1946.

In 1969, merged with United Packaging and Packaging Company Packaging NV. The combination then had 352 employees.

A new merger followed by Kappa (Carton Production and Paper) in 1973. Van Dam was called Kappa van Dam. In 1974, however, Van Dam disappeared because the company merged with the Royal Dutch Paper Factory (KNP), a much larger group, which it emerged.

In the end, this company merged with Bührmann-Tetterode (BT) and the VRG-Groep in Diemen in 1993. This merger company, known as KNP BT, had three divisions: office equipment, paper and packaging. Van Dam belonged to the Packaging Division. One advertised under the motto: a box is a box is never just a box to indicate that you could perform a lot of specialized functions with smartly stuck boxes.

The company was split into three. In 1997, the paper division was sold to South African Sappi Ltd., while in 1998 the office division continued as Buhrmann (without umlaut), to renamed 2007 again, now in Corporate Express. Kappa Van Dam continued as Kappa Packaging and became a specialist in the field of large-format cardboard packaging.

In 2007, a new business premises was started at Southeast Brabant in Helmond, and in the former factory site, the new construction project De Groene Loper is being built in 2008.

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