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As 2024 turned into 2025, multiple packaging companies shared updates on expanding their footprints. These are some of the facility announcements that Packaging Dive has tracked since late November:
- Earthrings, a startup brand under parent company Promac, opened operations in Elgin, Illinois, it announced in December. The company says it’s shipping its cardboard beverage rings to brewery customers in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. The cardboard packaging has a biodegradable, moisture-resistant coating, and the packaging can be recycled curbside or composted at home.
- Econo-Pak announced in December a 125,000-square-foot addition to its 200,000-square-foot facility in Milford, Pennsylvania. The contract food packaging and manufacturing company said this additional space “will house food packaging automation, upgraded production lines, and expanded storage capacity.” Econo-Pak anticipates this will support new projects and help service “growing demand for high-volume contract food packaging services.”
- Global Packaging Solutions expanded its operations in Albemarle, North Carolina, area officials announced in December. The manufacturer of flexible packaging and pouches grew by 25,000 square feet and added 10 jobs, bringing its total employee count to 28. The expansion was supported by an $80,000 building reuse grant through the state’s Rural Infrastructure Authority.
- Lindenmeyr Munroe, whose portfolio includes some paper and packaging products, announced in January it will add a Tampa-based distribution facility, set to begin operating in April. This site will service demand in the Jacksonville, Naples and Southeast Florida markets. This adds to the company’s network of 36 warehouses and nine retail locations across the U.S.
- McKinley Packaging, a subsidiary of Bio Pappel that specializes in paper-based packaging solutions, has opened a 500,000-square-foot corrugated box manufacturing plant in Lancaster, Texas, the Dallas Business Journal reported in January. The facility, under construction since 2022, is McKinley’s seventh U.S packaging plant and is expected to scale up to create 125 jobs.
- Nelipak, a global healthcare packaging specialist, opened its first North American flexible packaging production site in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, during Q4. Up until now, the company supplied flexible packaging customers worldwide from three European sites; this 110,000 square-foot expansion will help it service demand in the Americas, according to a November announcement.
- Pack Edge opened a new headquarters as 2024 came to a close, Mainebiz reported. The perishable and specialty food packaging company moved from Portland and is now consolidating its operations in Saco, Maine, with room at the new site to further expand.
- TerraSafe Materials and sister company DisSolves have invested more than $10 million to establish a new facility in Youngsville, North Carolina, area officials highlighted in December. The grand opening is slated for March 2025 and the site is expected to create 20 full-time jobs. TerraSafe specializes in developing biopolymer compounds for sustainable packaging, while DisSolves produces edible, dissolvable packaging from natural ingredients as an alternative to plastic films.
