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Packaging Company Begins $50M Expansion

Jeff Reinke
1/27/2019 | 5 min read
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Packaging Company Begins $50M Expansion

Phase III of Accredo Packaging’s 32-acre Sugar Land campus outside of Houston will add more than 200,000 square feet of warehouse and manufacturing space, requiring an investment of over $50 million. The initial phase of the project created 170,000 square feet in 2009 and the 175,000-square-foot second phase was completed in 2013. When eventually completed, the facility is expected to total nearly 550,000 square feet.

Phase III is projected for completion in 2019. Along with the expansion, Accredo North America plans to hire an estimated 175 new employees, bringing its total headcount at the plant to more than 525 workers. The company has pointed to the quality of the local workforce and proximity to major plastic resin suppliers as crucial drivers of expanding the same facility instead of growing in another part of the country.

Accredo supplies sustainable, flexible packaging for prepackaged food and consumer products markets. It produces about 1.5 billion feet of flexible film annually and expects that figure to grow to two billion feet per year once the expansion is complete. The company touts its advancements in renewably sourced packaging products and notes its facility is the first flexible packaging plant in the U.S. to receive LEED Silver certification, due to the plant’s use of 100 percent wind-generated electrical power.

 

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