| From left: Pratt GM Craig Beaudoin, Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor and Pratt Chairman Anthony Pratt. |
Pratt Industries, an Australia-based paper company with its U.S. headquarters in Conyers, Georgia, has officially opened its $44 million recycled-content corrugated mill in Lewisburg, Ohio. The 350,000-square-foot facility has been built adjacent to an existing Pratt box plant in Lewisburg.
“Not only will the recycled paper used here save as many as 10,000 trees per day, but the facility also uses the latest in water reclamation technology and will eventually reduce discharge into the local sewer system to zero,” says Anthony Pratt, company chairman.
Equipment at the plant includes a 110-inch paper machine supplied by BHS Corrugated
Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH of Germany and several finishing machines.
Work also is ongoing at Pratt’s new $260 million recycled paper mill under construction in Valparaiso, Indiana. It is being built on a 50-acre site about 50 miles south of Chicago, near another of Pratt’s box-making plants. It is scheduled for startup in late 2015.
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