Caraustar closing Indiana board mill.Caraustar Industries has closed its recycled boxboard box·board n. A firm cardboard used for making boxes. mill in Lafayette, Ind. The mill had an annual capacity of 64,000 tons. The company also announced the closing of four tube and core converting facilities. Those plants are in Amarillo, Texas “Amarillo” redirects here. For other uses, see Amarillo (disambiguation). Amarillo is the 14th-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. ; Vacaville, Calif.; Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , Mich., and Leyland, U.K. The decision to close the five facilities follows the company's earlier decision to improve its production efficiencies. Caraustar also has announced a plan to invest $4 million in five high-speed tube winders. These machines will be installed throughout the company's system in 2007. The Indiana plant was closed Monday, Jan. 8. Caraustar had purchased the facility from Smurfit Stone in 2004. With the mill closing, recovered fiber that the mill consumed con·sume v. con·sumed, con·sum·ing, con·sumes v.tr. 1. To take in as food; eat or drink up. See Synonyms at eat. 2. a. will have to be shifted to other paper stock consuming mills. |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion