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Kruger Inc. announced a C$333 million investment to build a nonwovens production unit on Île-de-la-Potherie in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, adjacent to its Wayagamack pulp and paper mill. Operations are planned to start in 2028.
Canadian packaging firm Kruger has opened its first US corrugated plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, a $142 million facility with high automation. It is expected to employ 150 people and produce 2.4 billion sq ft of recycled corrugated boxes a year when fully operational.
Kruger Packaging completed construction of its $114 million automated corrugated packaging plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, which is starting up and is expected to create nearly 150 jobs.
Kruger Packaging's Elizabethtown team produced the first sheets of corrugated paper at its soon-to-open corrugated box plant, with construction continuing toward completion. The milestone was reported on June 27, 2022.
Canada-based Kruger Packaging plans a $114.2 million, 400,000-square-foot corrugated box plant at T.J. Patterson Industrial Park in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, creating at least 150 jobs. The announcement was made on May 27, 2021.
Kruger Products announced a C$240 million project to expand its operations in the Sherbrooke region, making it a major tissue production hub in Québec.
Kruger has invested $40 million to build a bleached thermomechanical pulp plant at its Trois-Rivières facility and upgrade production at the Wayagamack Mill, which has begun delivering its first shipment as part of its SPEK specialty papers project.
Kruger is carrying out modernization projects at its LaSalle packaging plant and Place Turcot containerboard mill in Montreal, at a total cost of nearly $20 million, to be completed in 2018.
Kruger has dedicated a new high-speed corrugated packaging converting line at its LaSalle plant in Quebec after investing almost CAD 10 million, producing 24,000 boxes per hour.
Kruger rebuilt its MP10 newsprint machine at the Trois-Rivières mill in Quebec into a 100% recycled linerboard machine under a $250 million modernization project announced in September 2015. Official start-up occurred in May 2017.
Kruger inaugurated its converted machine number 10 at the Trois-Rivières mill, now producing 360,000 metric tonnes of packaging board for e-commerce, after a C$250 million project. About 80 local companies shared C$40 million of work.
Kruger committed C$377.6 million to diversify its Brompton and Wayagamack mills in Quebec into specialty papers; Investissement Québec takes a 37.5% equity stake and provides loans, creating Kruger Specialty Papers Holding L.P.
Kruger has completed the conversion of machine 10 at its Trois-Rivières mill, which previously made newsprint, to produce lightweight recycled cardboard. The project cost CAD 250 million and was done with Investissement Québec.
Kruger is investing C$250 million with Investissements Québec to convert its Trois-Rivières newsprint mill to make lightweight cardboard packaging, starting production May 7, and plans to hire about 100 workers within five years.
Kruger is rebuilding Paper Machine 10 at its Trois-Rivières mill to produce 100% recycled linerboard, with about $250 million invested and completion expected in May 2017. About $135 million of the budget has been committed to date.
Kruger completed the conversion of its No. 10 newsprint machine at the Trois-Rivières mill in Quebec into a lightweight linerboard line with 360,000 tonnes annual capacity, creating 270 jobs. The project was first announced with the Government of Quebec in September 2015.
