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Once the Dover manufacturing plant is fully operation- al, it will have the capacity to produce approximately 250 percent more boxes than the Newark facility and bring in $120 million in additional revenue per year, he said. Mehiel started the company as Four M Manufacturing in 1966 and it flourished in the niche of interior corrugated partitions. From its first plant in Newark, the company ex- panded to foam and sheet plants across the country. USC launched in 2006 as a new packing venture. Pending approval from state and local officials, the Do- ver plant will be U.S. Corrugated’s fourth “super plant” in the past decade, focusing on using robotics and machines to streamline the process. The first was built in Los Ange- les as a joint venture with Acorn Paper Products, while the second was located in Georgia and the third opened in Indiana in 2019. “We will have the ability to assemble boxes without the touch of human hands in most cases. In the past, we would have crews handling about 30,000 pounds of corrugated boxes into a machine per shift,” said Four M Manufacturing Chief Operating Officer Jeff Coleman. “Now we can em- ploy our robots to do that,” . “Instead, we can turn our staff into innovators and problem-solvers for our clients.” Mehiel was attracted to the Dover site for multiple rea- sons, but principally because it sits in one of the state’s 25 Opportunity Zones.
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