Packaging Corp. of America (PCA) announced another packaging facility closure last week, with the company set to shutter a corrugated packaging plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania, along with a previously announced closure in North Carolina.
In a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN notice, filed in Pennsylvania last week, Lake Forest, Illinois-based PCA reveals plans to permanently close its Trexlertown Full-Line Plant in Allentown by Dec. 1, affecting 60 employees.
“We will work in earnest with state and local officials to provide access to dislocated worker assistance for our affected employees,” PCA says in the WARN notice filed Oct. 8. “This represented a difficult business decision. We regret the impact the permanent plant closure will have on our valued employees and the community at large.”…