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Ox Industries to Open New Converting Plant in Sturgis, Michigan

Ox Industries edge protection The new facility will house two fully automatic high-speed protective packaging and tube and core lines, as well as a new high speed paperboard sheeter.

Nov. 2, 2020 - Ox Industries announced that it is opening a new converting operation in Sturgis, Michigan. The new plant will expand Ox's geographic reach for converted products in the Midwest.

The facility will be approximately 150,000 square feet of production and warehouse space, and house two fully automatic high-speed protective packaging and tube and core lines from TCM Solutions, as well as a new high speed "SheetRunner" paperboard sheeter from BW Paper Systems.

The facility will be vertically integrated within the Ox paper mill network and operational in the first quarter of 2021.

Ox expects the project will create up to 50 new jobs.

Headquartered in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Ox Industries is a leader in 100% recycled paperboard, specialty papers, paper tubes and cores, and green protective packaging products. Ox operates four recycled paper mills and five vertically integrated converted products facilities in eight states. For further information, visit: www.oxindustries.com.

SOURCE: Ox Industries