Printpack’s Planned Plant Closure Could Result in 90 Workers Needing New Jobs

By Linda Casey

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Packaging converters take note: Up to 90 experienced packaging industry workers are expected to be back on the job market at the end of this year due to an expected label and packaging plant closing in North Carolina. According to reportage by Kevin Ellis of Business North Carolina, Printpack will be closing its Hendersonville plant.

Ellis reports that the packaging plant has operated for half a century, where loyal employees converted and printed labels and flexible packaging, including candy wrappers.

As early as 2012, Printpack reportedly warned employees that their jobs were in jeopardy. Yet, Robin Potter, a 40-year Printpack employee currently employed in human resources, told Ellis that the label and packaging plant’s employees “never gave up on their integrity and their drive to do good work.”

Despite the plant being a nonunion shop, Printpack announced that employees who do not move to another plant will receive severance pay in addition to their final wages.

Read the complete report on Business North Carolina’s website: https://businessnc.com

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As editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions — the leading publication and online content provider for the printed packaging markets — Linda Casey leverages her experience in the packaging, branding, marketing, and printing industries to deliver content that label and package printers can use to improve their businesses and operations.

Prior to her role at Packaging Impressions, Casey was editor-in-chief of BXP: Brand Experience magazine, which celebrated brand design as a strategic business competence. Her body of work includes deep explorations into a range of branding, business, packaging, and printing topics.

Casey’s other passion, communications, has landed her on the staffs of a multitude of print publications, including Package Design, Converting, Packaging Digest, Instant & Small Commercial Printer, High Volume Printing, BXP: Brand Experience magazine, and more. Casey started her career more than three decades ago as news director for WJAM, a youth-oriented music-and-news counterpart to WGCI and part of the Chicago-based station’s AM band presence.