Delmarva Corrugated Packaging held the grand opening of its 465,000-square-foot plant in Dover, Delaware, a $91 million investment that created 160 jobs. The plant has been operating since 2021 and is served by the Delmarva Central Railroad.
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.
U.S. Corrugated plans to buy about 40 acres south of Dover and build an approximately $80 million corrugated cardboard box manufacturing plant bringing 150 jobs to Kent County, Delaware, reported September 29, 2020.
U.S. Corrugated Inc and McKinley Paper Co, a subsidiary of Bio PAPPEL, have been amalgamated to form a vertically integrated paper and packaging company with mills and box plants in the US and Mexico.
Box manufacturer U.S. Corrugated, owned by McKinley Paper Co., selected Lebanon, Indiana for a new state-of-the-art corrugated packaging plant scheduled to start up by the end of 2019. No capacity figure was announced.
Mexican paper maker Biopappel, through its US subsidiary McKinley Paper Company, acquired 55 percent of US Corrugated Inc and subsidiaries. The amount was not disclosed, and the deal doubles Biopappel's US operations.
U.S. Corrugated Inc. plans to invest about $75 million in a corrugated packaging operation in Lebanon, Indiana, creating about 140 jobs. The Lebanon City Council approved an incentive package for the project.
C&P and parent U.S. Corrugated Holdings entered a strategic alliance with Bio Pappel, giving C&P operational control of Bio Pappel's Mexicali super plant, effective April 5, 2019. Investments continue with a new Latitude Jumbo folder-gluer and a Barberan digital press.
U.S. Corrugated, Inc. acquired a majority interest in Corrugated and Packaging LLC, which operates a corrugated sheet plant and foam fabrication in Tijuana, Mexico.
U.S. Corrugated, Inc. expanded its corrugated box plant in Santa Fe Springs, California, with support from a Southern California economic development team and incentives.
WestRock completed the acquisition of five corrugated cardboard plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Louisiana from U.S. Corrugated for $192 million in cash and common shares. WestRock also secured about 50 thousand tons of supply through a long-term contract.
WestRock agreed to acquire five corrugated converting facilities in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Louisiana from U.S. Corrugated Holdings for about $192 million in cash and stock. The deal is expected to close in June 2017.