Gaylord Container Corp. will discontinue making boxes at its St. Louis container plant and reopen the facility as a corrugated sheeting operation in early April.
The plant, intended to close Feb. 24, will retain most of its employees when it becomes Gateway Sheets.
In the new operation, Gaylord will make cardboard sheets before marketing them to independent converters who will then make them into boxes, the company said in a statement.
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