The facility aims to keep pace with increasing demands by consumers and retailers for fully recyclable boxes and fit-to-product packaging
UK based packaging company DS Smith has opened a box manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Indiana. It can produce more than 17 million square feet of lightweight recyclable packaging a day.
The facility aims to keep pace with increasing demands by consumers and retailers for fully recyclable boxes and fit-to-product packaging.
The opening of the corrugated plant heralds the company’s latest technology, keeping pace with increasing demands by consumers and retailers for fully recyclable boxes and “fit-to-product” packaging that reduces costs, waste and “packing air” of irregularly shaped items. The facility can produce about 30,000 boxes an hour and 2 billion square feet of recyclable packaging a year.
Miles Roberts, Group CEO of DS Smith said, “Our new facility in Indiana is unique to the U.S. market. With our innovative packaging design and focus on sustainable materials, we can support our customers’ needs in a changing world, no matter how sophisticated their requirements. We look forward to serving many of the global brands we work with in Europe, as well as a range of new customers, with their U.S.-based packaging.”
Mark Ushpol, managing director of packaging for DS Smith in North America said, “Our new box plant stands apart from the rest in the industry and is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and machinery that relies on fully automated operations. Our talent and teams are free to focus on working directly with customers designing custom packaging that reduces system waste, drives sustainability and provides immediate value to the supply chain.”
DS Smith views this plant as a job-creating economic catalyst for central Indiana, making the town of Lebanon home to one of the world’s most sophisticated corrugated manufacturing facilities.