# Evanesce Packaging Solutions to build $70 million plant in South Carolina

Evanesce Packaging Solutions will locate its first large-scale production facility in Walterboro, South Carolina, to manufacture compostable food service trays. The $70 million investment is expected to create 368 jobs over five years, with production starting in early 2019.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-10-03
- Where: Walterboro, South Carolina, United States
- Value: $70.0M
- Jobs: 368
- Starts operating: Jan 2019
- Status: announced
- Products: compostable food service trays
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Evanesce Packaging Solutions](https://endata.com/companies/8510.md)

## Sources

- [southerncarolina.org](https://southerncarolina.org/news_center/article/evanesce-packaging-solutions-to-create-368-jobs-in-colleton-county), 2018-10-03: "Evanesce Packaging Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce that the company will locate its first large scale production facility in Walterboro, South Carolina, to manufacture compostable food service trays."

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