PCA To Idle Mill In Wallula, WA
Box Shipments ( U.S. Corrugated Product Shipments) Industry Shipments In Billions of Square Feet Month December 2022
Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) will be idling its paper mill in Wallula, Washington affecting some 300 jobs, according to the Tri-City Herald . Operations are expected to resume later this year. Facilities producing corrugated products in Richland and Wallula, however, will remain open, the paper said. The Washington mill produces about 1,800 tons of unbleached paper and corrugated medium per day and consumes about 1,000 tons per day of old corrugated containers (OCC) it sources from around the region. Based in Lake Forest, Illinois, the PCA is the third-larg- est producer of container board in the US. It operates more than 100 facilities and employs approximately 15,000 employees. The decision did not fall under the Worker Adjust- ment Retraining Notification (WARN) Act which requires advance notice for companies employing more than 100 people, the report said. PCA’s packaging division includes seven container- board mills and about 90 converting operations. In 2022, PCA produced about 4.6 million tons of con- tainerboard and shipped about 63.4 billion square feet of corrugated products. PCA's net sales in 2022 was $8.5 billion.
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2022 2021
30.124 34.180
-11.9
7.927 8.545
-7.2
Industry Total
Year-to Date
December 2022
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2022 2021
400.520 416.189
-3.8
7.979 8.291
-3.8
Industry Total
Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)
Year
Month
Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change
2022 2021
2.4260 2.7360
-11.3
32.5461 33.8321
-3.8
Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)
Corrugator Plants Only
Date
Percent Change Weeks of Supply
Percent Change
Dec. Nov.
2.2603 2.2586
0.1
3.5 3.6
-2.8
Shipping Days
Year
Month
Year-to-Date
2022 2021
19 20
251 251
SOURCE: Fibre Box Association
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