York Container, part of Atlantic Packaging, started up its first greenfield corrugated box plant in Elgin, Illinois, with over 400,000 sq ft of manufacturing space producing corrugated sheets, brown shippers and graphic packaging.
ALPLA acquired a majority stake in Moroccan packaging producer Atlantic Packaging and formed the joint venture ALPLA Morocco with Diana Holding. The Tangier plant has tripled preform capacity to around 300 million units per year after new lines were added.
Atlantic Packaging is proposing a 488,450-square-foot corrugated packaging plant at 2601 Mason Road in Elgin, Illinois, a $30 million investment, as reported by the Daily Herald on Aug. 3, 2021.
Atlantic Packaging wants to build a 488,450-square-foot corrugated box factory at 2601 Mason Road in Elgin, in a development of about $30 million. The city planning commission recommended approval, and the full city council still has to vote.
Atlantic Corporation of Wilmington announced its acquisition of Coastal Corrugated, a 35-year-old family-owned corrugated box maker in North Charleston, South Carolina. Coastal also makes protective packaging components for the automotive industry.
Atlantic Packaging is investing $4.5 million to expand its existing Dorchester County operations with a 100,000-square-foot distribution and warehousing addition, creating 10 new jobs, with completion projected by fall 2019.
Atlantic Packaging has selected Thomas Construction Group to build a two-story, roughly 16,000 sq ft addition to its Wilmington headquarters, with work slated to begin in early March 2019.