Union City, California based Emerald Packaging, one of the nation’s largest suppliers of flexible packaging solutions for the produce industry, has expanded its market-leading production capabilities to Southern CA, establishing its second facility in the state.
The company’s new production facility will run out of Blower-Dempsay Corp. in Santa Ana. Emerald announced the purchase of their flexible packaging assets. The deal is the first acquisition in Emerald Packaging’s 63-year history and gives the company a well-positioned location to serve produce customers in Arizona and northern Mexico.
The purchase will eventually increase Emerald’s headcount from 250 today to over 300 by the end of the year.Emerald will benefit not only from increased capacity, but a strong geographic link to its largest customers. Emerald will now be only three hours to the Mexicali crossing as opposed to over a day, which is critical to serving customers in that region.
Emerald’s new Santa Ana facility features an eight color, 52” wide Windmoeller & Hoelscher printing press, two Nordmeccanica laminators, two slitters and a thermal oxidizer. The company plans to add slitters with laser and hot needle capability and a second printing press soon.
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