Packaging Corporation of America will permanently shut down the W2 paper machine and kraft pulp lines at its Wallula, Washington containerboard plant, cutting about 200 jobs and reducing annual capacity by about 250,000 tonnes. Measures are to be completed by the end of Q1 2026, with pre-tax charges of about USD 205 million.

WestRock will close its existing corrugated box plant in North Chicago, Illinois, once the new Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin facility is complete.

U.S. Corrugated will close its 35-year-old full-line box plant in Newark, New Jersey, and transfer operations to the planned Dover, Delaware plant by the end of 2021.

Greif announced on October 15, 2019 that an uncoated recycled board machine with capacity of nearly 65,000 tons per year at its Mobile, Alabama mill will stop operating.

Ball Corporation will cease production at its Birmingham, Alabama, Chatsworth, California, and Longview, Texas beverage packaging plants during 2018, eliminating about 309 jobs. Existing customers will be supplied from other Ball facilities, with an approximately USD 22 million after-tax charge.

Amcor Rigid Plastics is closing its Batavia, Illinois plastic bottle factory, eliminating 110 jobs, with a rolling shutdown from September 2017 until March 2018 and equipment to be sold.

The MATLET Group will close its 150,000 sq ft Central Florida Press manufacturing operation in Orlando, Florida by the end of summer 2017, affecting about 145 workers, and move the work to its Packaging Graphics facility in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Ball Corporation will close its Reidsville, North Carolina beverage can plant next year, eliminating about 150 jobs. The company expects an after-tax charge of about $18 million, mostly for severance, pensions, impairments and shutdown costs.