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The start of spring has brought with it new and expanded U.S. locations for a variety of packaging companies, many of which fall in the central United States. Here are the recent expansion announcements on Packaging Dive’s radar:
- Alltrista Plastics, a subsidiary of Jadex, announced a 25,000-square-foot expansion at its Springfield, Missouri, facility, supporting growth in its medical and consumer packaging product lines. Although the company didn’t give a specific dollar figure, it called this a “multimillion-dollar investment” in a facility that will become Alltrista’s prime location for compression blow forming technology. The project is scheduled for completion in September.
- CG Roxane, maker of Crystal Geyser bottled water, is expanding its facility in Benton, Tennessee, to bring its PET preform and HDPE cap manufacturing fully in-house to complement its existing recycled PET operations there. The site will add approximately 60,000 square feet of new infrastructure, including silos, debagging stations, PET dryers, injection machines, mixers, conveyors, chillers and compressors. The company intends for the preform capacity to support its entire East Coast bottling network.
- New Tech Plastics, which manufactures thin-gauge film, is investing $5 million to expand into pouch converting, Plastics News reported. The company is based in Covington, Ohio, and will add the pouch operations at a facility in nearby Piqua. New Tech Plastics will receive a $250,000 grant from the JobsOhio Revitalization Fund for the project, which is expected to create 30 new jobs.
- Nextera Packaging opened its new headquarters in White Bear Township, Minnesota. It’s 116% larger than the previous HQ and includes a 114,000-square-foot warehouse and office facility, according to a company LinkedIn post. The pre-labeling area is 114% larger. The food packaging company broke ground on the new building last year and decided to expand to support its growing business.
- Pacific Packaging is establishing a presence on the East Coast for the first time in its more than 50 years in operation, according to a LinkedIn post by CEO Brandon Frank. The California-based distributor opened a site in North Carolina that will enable “faster collaboration, better coverage, and more face-to-face conversations with the brands and teams we work with on the East Coast,” he said.
- Questar Solutions announced that it relocated its warehouse operations in Fairfield, New Jersey, to Easton, Pennsylvania. The new facility has additional warehouse and dock space, and the location will boost delivery speeds and service reliability for customers in the Northeast, according to the industrial packaging company.
- Tetra Pak broke ground on a $22 million innovation facility in Denton, Texas, at the campus where its U.S. and Canada headquarters is located. A product development center will take up 12,000 square feet, doubling the campus’ current innovation capacity, and an additional 3,000 square feet will be dedicated to a customer innovation center. The site is adjacent to the company’s existing product development center, and Tetra Pak expects it to open in the first quarter of 2027. The company also intends to add eight new jobs.
- Uline is opening a new 1.25 million-square-foot warehouse in Plainfield, Connecticut, and plans to begin operations there this summer, according to CT Insider. The Wisconsin-based packaging manufacturer and distributor expects to launch in Connecticut with up to 250 employees and intends to eventually employ up to 450.
