# WestRock to build new corrugated packaging plant in Porto Feliz, Brazil

WestRock announced plans to build a new corrugated box plant in Porto Feliz, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, to serve growing regional demand. Construction is expected to begin later in 2017 and finish in mid-2019.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-09-01
- Where: Porto Feliz, Sao Paulo state, Brazil
- Value: $125.0M
- Status: announced
- Capacity: more than 400 million square metres of cardboard a year
- Products: corrugated boxes
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [WestRock](https://endata.com/companies/791.md)

## Sources

- [globenewswire.com](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/09/18/1124088/25144/en/WestRock-to-Build-New-Corrugated-Packaging-Plant-in-Brazil.html), 2017-09-18: "The new facility will be located in Porto Feliz and will serve all industry segments and markets both in the highly developed Sao Paulo region"
- [globenewswire.com](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/09/18/1124088/25144/en/westrock-to-build-new-corrugated-packaging-plant-in-brazil.html), 2017-09-18: "The new facility will be located in Porto Feliz and will serve all industry segments and markets both in the highly developed Sao Paulo region"
- [midlandco.com](https://www.midlandco.com/westrock-to-build-new-corrugated-packaging-plant-in-brazil/), 2017-09-18: "WestRock Company (NYSE:WRK) announced plans today to build a new corrugated box plant in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo"
- [asiapapermarkets.com](http://www.asiapapermarkets.com/westrock-to-build-new-corrugated-packaging-plant-in-brazil/), 2017-09-19: "WestRock announced plans [yesterday] to build a new corrugated box plant in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo to meet growing demand from WestRock's regional customers in South America."
- [packaging-gateway.com](https://www.packaging-gateway.com/projects/westrock-corrugated-packaging-plant-sao-paulo/), 2018-02-19: "WestRock will invest more than $125m to build the facility, which is expected to improve the company's cost structure and operating margins."

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