Green Bay Packaging Cuts Ribbon On New Facility In Tulsa, Oklahoma Green Bay Packaging recently opened a 540,000-square- foot manufacturing center and 28,000-square-foot office building in west Tulsa County, Oklahoma. “We’re about 75 percent of the way at our start-up curve,” said Ryan Boegh, Green Bay’s Vice President and General Manager of the Tulsa division. “We started some production transitions in late October through the end of last year and were at full production in February.”
Box Shipments ( U.S. Corrugated Product Shipments) Industry Shipments In Billions of Square Feet Month March 2022
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2022 2021
37.675 37.992
-0.8
8.190 8.259
-0.8
Industry Total
Year-to Date
March 2022
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2022 2021
102.648 102.938
-0.3
8.019 8.170
-1.8
Industry Total
Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)
Year
Month
Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change
2022 2021
3.1027 3.0967
0.2
8.4866 8.4625
0.3
Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)
Corrugator Plants Only
Date
Percent Change Weeks of Supply
Percent Change
Mar. Feb.
2.2693 2.3081
-1.7
3.4 3.5
-2.9
Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the Tulsa Divi- sion employs 115 people locally and plans to increase that number to 135 in the next few years. It also has a state plant in Chickasha that employs about 45. “We’re still learning, and still growing,” Boegh said. “But it’s great to have some space to stretch out and serve our growth for our current customers and future customers.”
Shipping Days
Year
Month
Year-to-Date
2022 2021
23 23
64 63
SOURCE: Fibre Box Association
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