Caraustar Industries announced the closure of its Lafayette recycled boxboard mill in Lafayette, Ind. The mill has an annual capacity of 64,000 tons.
The company also announced the closing of four tube and core converting facilities. Those plants are located in Amarillo, TX; Vacaville, CA; Grand Rapids, MI and Leyland, U.K.
The decision to close the five facilities follows the company’s earlier decision to improve the company’s production efficiencies.
The company also announced a plan to invest $4 million in five high-speed tube winders. These machines will be installed throughout the Caraustar system this year.
The Indiana plan was closed Monday, Jan. 8. Caraustar had purchased the facility from Smurfit Stone in 2004.
With the mill closing down recovered fiber, which had been consumed by the mill, will have to be shifted to other paper stock consuming mills.
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