{"id":870639,"date":"2026-10-04T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870639\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:30:21","slug":"middletown-packaging-plant-set-to-close-dozens-of-layoffs-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870639\/","title":{"rendered":"Middletown packaging plant set to close; dozens of layoffs planned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middletown packaging plant set to close; dozens of layoffs planned<\/p>\n

\"KurtMIDDLETOWN, Ohio \u2014<\/p>\n

A Middletown packaging plant is set to close this fall, with dozens of layoffs planned.<\/p>\n

According to a notice filed with the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services<\/a> on Thursday, 91 workers are expected to lose their jobs as the Packaging Corporation of America plant at 1824 Baltimore Street is shuttered.<\/p>\n

In the letter, which was addressed to the mayor of Middletown and Butler County commissioners, Packaging Corporation of America says that the decision has been made to consolidate the company into “larger and more efficient operations” elsewhere.<\/p>\n

According to the company, this includes a new $275 million plant that recently opened just outside of Columbus this summer.<\/p>\n

“PCA will collaborate with you and all other state and local government officials \u2014 including the Department of Job & Family Services \u2014 to provide dislocated worker assistance to the affected employees,” the letter read. “We will also assist any affected employees who may be interested in transferring to another PCA location with open positions.”<\/p>\n

The final day for workers at the plant will be December 1. Afterwards, the company plans to fully vacate the building by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

“This was a difficult business decision; it is in no way a reflection of the hard work and dedication of our valued employees,” the letter concluded.<\/p>\n

The layoffs come as a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report<\/a> indicates that the state of Ohio has been steadily shedding jobs for about two years now, with roughly 23,500 fewer jobs currently existing than were present in October 2024 across the state.<\/p>\n

Most recently, this included a truck manufacturing plant in Springfield that shuttered this week, leading to nearly 1,400 layoffs.<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite this, Ohio’s unemployment rate (defined as people who are actively looking for work but can’t find it) significantly shrank throughout that same timeframe. It currently stands at 3.3%, a historic all-time low that is the result of a steady trend downwards since unemployment peaked at 16.5% during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middletown packaging plant set to close; dozens of layoffs planned MIDDLETOWN, Ohio \u2014 A Middletown packaging plant is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[366952,23,28,3426,76057,332089,6292,3897,14849,366951,74446,16598,92107,366953,23250,2394],"class_list":["post-870639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-affected-employee","tag-america","tag-business","tag-company","tag-dozen","tag-family-services","tag-job","tag-layoff","tag-letter","tag-middletown-packaging-plant","tag-ohio-department","tag-operation","tag-other-state","tag-packaging-corporation","tag-worker","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}