# Smurfit Kappa opens $23M corrugated packaging plant in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

Smurfit Kappa has invested $23 million in a corrugated cardboard plant in the Oradel industrial park in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The facility is due to open the following week, and is expected to create direct and indirect jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2023-01-26
- Where: Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
- Value: $23.0M
- Status: completed
- Capacity: More than 12.5 billion square meters of corrugated packaging annually
- Products: corrugated cardboard packaging, paper-based packaging
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Smurfit Kappa](https://endata.com/companies/261.md)

## Sources

- [milenio.com](https://www.milenio.com/negocios/empresa-irlanda-invirtio-tamaulipas-25-mdd-planta-carton), 2023-01-27: "la puesta en archa de su complejo con inversión de 23 millones de dólares."
- [lmtonline.com](https://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/smurfit-kappa-invests-23-6-m-new-plant-nuevo-17763726.php), 2023-02-06: "Smurfit Kappa opened its first fully integrated corrugating plant in Laredo's sister city on Jan. 31."

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