Board Converting News, June 6, 2022

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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