LAKE FOREST, ILL. (Jan. 19, 1 p.m. ET) -- Reynolds Group Holdings Ltd. will close its Reynolds Food Packaging plant in Grove City, Pa. “We’re doing some consolidation. These operations will be consolidated in other facilities, specifically New York and Illinois,” company spokesman Matthew Gonring said in a Jan.19 telephone interview.
He said 145 employees, represented by the United Steelworkers union, and the company are in negotiations over workers’ possible futures within the Reynolds companies. Gonring did not give a timeline for the plant closure.
He said products produced at the plant include plastic, aluminum and paper products.
Reynolds Group of Auckland, New Zealand, is a subsidiary of Rank Group Ltd., the private investment group owned by billionaire packaging mogul Graeme Hart.
The 250,000-square-foot Pennsylvania plant contained a 9 million pounds-per-year PET sheet extrusion line installed in 2006 as well as thermoforming equipment purchased by Alcoa Inc., which owned Reynolds Food Packaging before Rank Group in 2008 acquired Alcoa’s packaging and consumer businesses.
Reynolds Group in November acquired packaging manufacturer Pactiv Corp. of Lake Forest, Ill., the maker of Hefty trash bags, in a deal worth about $6 billion.
