Graphic Packaging To Close Facilities

MARIETTA, Ga.—Graphic Packaging International, Inc. plans to close four manufacturing facilities, and transition their business to other U.S. operating locations as it continues to complete integration plans to achieve the previously announced savings of $90 million by 2010.

Graphic Packaging's folding carton facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala. is expected to discontinue production by the end of the second quarter of 2009, and the folding carton plants in Morris, Ill. and Muncie, Ind. are expected to cease operations during third quarter of 2009.