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Why box makers replace older factories—and what three investments reveal about modernization costs. A new corrugated converting plant in Newark, Ohio, covers approximately 550,000 square feet. About 130 miles away, Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is preparing to close its...

Hundreds of volunteers turned about 2,000 cardboard boxes and 38 km of tape into a 20-meter pier and a monumental clocktower in Weston-super-Mare, UK — without a crane or steel frame. The main structure rose in about nine hours after...

The new plant will be centered on a 2.5-meter BW Papersystems Value Line corrugator rated at up to 300 m/min.

Nineteen billion dollars in annual sales. Three billion in adjusted EBITDA. Around forty-nine thousand employees. Three countries. This is Smurfit Westrock North America, the business led by President and CEO Laurent Sellier. Paper. Corrugated packaging. Consumer and specialty packaging. Machinery...

More than $80M is going into machinery at Bondurant, with 105 jobs and a new competitive node northeast of Des Moines. Pratt Industries is preparing its first manufacturing site in Iowa — a $97.6 million corrugated-packaging plant in Bondurant, northeast...

At Corrugated Week in Fort Worth, Laurent Sellier, President & CEO of Smurfit Westrock North America, came over to our Corruga Empire table and joined the game. I told him that corruga.expert was investigating the surge of corrugated pizza boxes...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Corrugated Week 2026 has officially opened, bringing together the leaders, manufacturers, suppliers and technology providers shaping the future of the corrugated packaging industry.

The $420 million price equals roughly 16% of CMPC’s current market capitalisation but only about 1.7% of Smurfit Westrock’s. That asymmetry tells the story: material for the seller, manageable for the buyer — and potentially transformative for Chilean corrugated.

Trombini Embalagens’ R$120 million Farroupilha expansion includes a Mitsubishi flexographic machine specified at up to 42,000 boxes per hour. Over an eight-hour shift, that headline speed equals 336,000 boxes. Now apply a purely illustrative OEE scenario. At 85% OEE, the...

From Smurfit Westrock’s $13.46 billion combination to 20,000-kph material handling, digital twins, AI, retrofits and quality control, Fort Worth will bring the industry’s investment choices into one room. More than 1,100 corrugated professionals. More than 145 suppliers. An opening keynote...

On September 13, 2026, Ukrainian sources reported an air strike on the "Shebekino Board" plant in Belgorod Oblast. The facility sits 6 km from the Russian-Ukrainian border and roughly 10 km from the front line. According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia's...

For corrugated plants, the next growth opportunity may not be another box. It may be the protection inside it — as 100% paper cushioning, right-sizing and PPWR push the whole transport pack toward fibre.

TCY has made two North American moves that matter far more together than apart. A newly commissioned NB5 Flexo Folder Gluer is running on the US East Coast at up to 16,800 sheets/hour. At the same time, TCY has appointed...

A few days ago, a Smurfit Westrock post on LinkedIn caught our attention. The company had again been named among TIME’s World’s Best Companies. That recognition was not about corrugated packaging — but it made us look wider. What we...

At full published speed, 30 seconds of feeding downtime equals 250 sheets of theoretical feed capacity. That is why a prefeeder should not be judged as “peripheral equipment”. On a modern corrugated converting line, it can decide whether rated speed...

LatamCORR returns to Mexico City on June 9–10, 2027. Behind the event is a corrugated market tied to US$871.6 billion in U.S.–Mexico goods trade, concentrated in a handful of industrial states and increasingly shaped by automation, flexibility and cross-border supply...

SHELTER opens today at the MAIF Social Club: a participatory installation in which visitors build an ephemeral house from 2,000 interlocking cardboard boxes, with DS Smith supporting the project.

A UK-reviewed value model points to more than £710,000 in potential annual cost reduction and nearly 4,000 staff hours for a representative £25 million sheet plant. At stand 47 in Telford, Amtech will let visitors put their own operating figures...

A 50 m/min upgrade, roughly 278 m/min across a full day, and one question for plant directors: buy more capacity — or extract more from the corrugator already installed?

An Interview With the CEO of MachineryAssist Tadas Šalkauskas runs MachineryAssist, a company specialising in industrial machinery relocation across a wide range of manufacturing industries.