27 Jan 2020 --- DS Smith has opened a state-of-the-art box manufacturing plant in the town of Lebanon, Illinois, US. The “industry-leading” facility can produce 30,000 boxes an hour and 2 billion square feet of recyclable packaging annually – more than 17 million square feet of packaging per day. The plant “heralds the company’s latest technology, keeping pace with the increasing demands by consumers and retailers for fully recyclable boxes and ‘fit-to-product’ packaging that reduces costs, waste and ‘packing air’ of irregularly shaped items,” the global supplier says.
