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Packaging companies announced investments in distribution, production capacity and customer experience the last month.
- Dominion Packaging, a Virginia-based manufacturer of folding cartons and consumer packaging, expanded with a 188,000-square-foot industrial facility within Henrico County. The company said the site will serve as a “dedicated finished goods and distribution hub” and its $25 million investment is expected to create over 100 new jobs.
- ePac opened its largest-ever manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona, which is expected to eventually have more than 100 employees. The 66,000-square-foot facility will help meet demand for digitally printed flexible packaging in the region and across North America, the company said. “The Southwest is home to some of the most dynamic CPG brands in the country, and we’re proud to give them a partner right in their backyard,” CEO Virag Patel said in a statement. ePac is now owned by private equity firm Butterfly Equity.
- Georgia-Pacific is spending $20 million to add two new thermoforming lines at an Anchor Packaging facility in Paragould, Arkansas, that makes polypropylene and PET containers. Georgia-Pacific said it’s part of efforts to grow its foodservice solutions business. Work has already begun on this project, and G-P expects the new lines to launch in late 2027.
- Millcraft, an Ohio-based print, paper and packaging solutions provider, is expanding in Chattanooga, Tennessee, local news outlets detailed. It’s Millcraft’s next step for growing in Tennessee after reportedly doubling in size in Nashville in the last five years.
- Paragon Films, a stretch film manufacturer based in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, opened an “experience center” at its headquarters for customer collaboration.
- Sonoco announced plans to spend $40 million over the next two years to modernize its Richmond, Virginia, paperboard mill, increasing its annual production capacity by approximately 9,000 tons. Construction is expected to begin in early 2027 and be completed by the end of 2028. Sonoco said the Richmond site, which currently has annual output of about 120,000 tons, is important to its integrated URB system, making paperboard used in paper cans as well as lightweight tan bending chip grades.
- SPR inaugurated a 103,000-square-foot agricultural film manufacturing plant in Greenville, Texas, following $100 million in investment by parent company Armando Álvarez Group, Texas Construction Hub reported.
- Thinkpackage, a New York City-area custom packaging design firm, signed a 10-year lease beginning in 2027 to occupy a 120,000-square-foot third party logistics facility in Orange County, New York. Construction on that building is now underway.
