Packaging manufacturers continue to tighten their manufacturing footprints as a result of changes to demand, restructuring plans and M&A deals. These were some of the announcements and disclosures in February:

• Cascades announced it’s closing three containerboard facilities in Canada and the U.S.
• Domtar is indefinitely curtailing operations at its mill in Ashdown, Arkansas.
• Mohawk Fine Papers, certain assets of which were recently in Ohio in February. 
• SEE disclosed WARN notice that it’s closing a site in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, impacting 83 . 
• Sonoco announced permanent closures in Sumner, Washington, and Memphis, Tennessee.
• Stora Enso expects to lay off up to 1,000 employees across all divisions.
• Tetra Pak will shutter packaging material production operations in Singapore, impacting 300.