# Pope Packaging completes over $50M Adelaide paper sack plant expansion

Pope Packaging completed a more than A$50 million expansion of its Adelaide paper sack plant, raising finished sack capacity by 50 percent and doubling printing capacity with a new high-speed press.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2026-10-06
- Where: Adelaide, Australia
- Value: $33.0M (50.0M AUD)
- Status: completed
- Capacity: finished paper sack production up 50 per cent; over 1,000 sacks per minute press
- Products: paper sacks, inner patch paper sacks
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Pope Packaging](https://endata.com/companies/14780.md)

## Sources

- [australianmanufacturing.com.au](https://www.australianmanufacturing.com.au/pope-packaging-strengthens-australian-manufacturing-with-over-50m-adelaide-expansion/), 2026-10-06: "The expansion has increased finished paper sack production capacity by 50 per cent and doubled the company's printing capacity."

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