Board Converting News, April 25, 2022

Board Converting News, April 25, 2022

BoardConverting Serving the North American Corrugated and Folding Carton Industries for 38 years April 25, 2022 VOL. 38, NO. 17

FBA Panelists Offer Solutions To Industry’s Labor Challenges BY LEN PRAZYCH The issue of labor and specifically, hiring and retaining employees to work in the corrugated industry, continues to be the primary issue fac- ing today’s independent and integrated box makers alike. Appropriate- ly, the topic was addressed head-on during the first general session of FBA’s 2022 Annual Meeting at The Montage in Laguna Beach, Califor- nia, from April 10-12.

Pratt Industries To Open New Box Plant In Texas

Conyers, Georgia based Pratt Industries an- nounced that it will open a new box plant and shipping center in the Southwest Dallas County community of Cedar Hill, Texas. The company has leased one-million-square-feet of industrial space in a new business park on U.S. Highway 67 and plans to create 150 jobs at the new regional “manufacturing and inno- vation center.” “We’re very honored to be in Cedar Hill and we’re committed to the great state of Tex- as,” said Anthony Pratt, Executive Chairman of Pratt Industries. “In fact, this is our fifth box factory here. We have long prided ourselves on the fact that we employ 11,000 Americans in well-paying, green-collar manufacturing jobs and we have now invested in America to the value of $10 billion. Cedar Hill will be our 71st factory in the United States.” Pratt Industries is one of the country’s larg- est corrugated packaging manufacturers and the world’s largest, privately held producer of recycled container board. The company plans to invest more than $200 million in equip- ment, inventory and building improvements for the new plant.

Before introducing the panelists who would share their challenges — and solutions — to the problem of hiring and retaining employees, FBA Vice President Rachel Kenyon shared new >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44

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