PCA to close corrugated packaging site in Salisbury, North Carolina

Packaging Corp. of America (PCA) is the latest packaging producer to announce a facility closure, with the Lake Forest, Illinois-based company set to shut down a corrugated packaging plant in Salisbury, North Carolina.

PCA filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN notice, with the state Friday. According to the filing, 108 employees will be laid off and the facility permanently closed by Dec. 19.

“This represented a difficult business decision,” PCA Deputy General Counsel Mark Romaniuk says in the WARN notice. “We regret the impact the permanent plant closure will have on our valued employees and the community at large.”

PCA lists its Salisbury site as a full-line corrugated packaging plant. Including Salisbury, the company has 51 full-line packaging facilities in the United States and only one other in North Carolina.

The move comes a little over a month after PCA completed its $1.8 billion purchase of the containerboard business of Delaware, Ohio-based packaging company Greif Inc., and the company previously had not followed the trend of paper packaging facility closures.

However, in this year’s second-quarter, PCA reported “cautious ordering patterns” from its corrugated products customers as well as a decrease in export containerboard sales.

PCA will report its third quarter 2025 earnings Oct. 22 and host an earnings call Oct. 23.