{"id":77331,"date":"2026-01-04T02:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77331\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:34:21","slug":"pca-closures-in-pennsylvania-north-carolina-hit-168-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77331\/","title":{"rendered":"PCA closures in Pennsylvania, North Carolina hit 168 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Packaging Corporation of America is closing multiple manufacturing sites before year\u2019s end, the company revealed in Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices this month.<\/p>\n

PCA is closing a full-line plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania<\/a>, come Dec. 1, impacting 60 employees.<\/p>\n

Weeks later, come Dec. 19, PCA plans to shutter a full-line plant in Salisbury,\u00a0North Carolina<\/a>, affecting 108 workers, the company informed the state on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n

PCA could not be reached for comment about reasons for the latest closures.<\/p>\n

These announcements follow PCA\u2019s closure of a corrugated plant<\/a> in Georgia at the start of this year.<\/p>\n

PCA noted on its most recent second-quarter earnings call in July that it had some downtime at mills to align with lower demand<\/a>, resulting in year-over-year and quarter-to-quarter declines in total containerboard production. Recent estimates suggest containerboard site closures announced across the industry this year have resulted in a nearly 10% reduction in North American capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, PCA is growing. The U.S.-only company recently completed its $1.8 billion acquisition<\/a> of Greif\u2019s containerboard business, which came with mills in Virginia and Ohio, plus sheet feeder and corrugated plant locations across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to the article 1 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-77331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}