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Many officials from New York State, Monroe County and local jurisdictions joined ProAmpac CEO, Greg Tucker, to address the start of construction of the company’s Collaboration & Innovation Center. The multi-million-dollar investment will expand ProAmpac’s existing facility to house what will become the company’s international hub for packaging design and development.
ProAmpac, which celebrated its fifth anniversary last month, ranks as the second largest North American packaging company based on flexible packaging revenue and is number one in flexible packaging innovation, number one for its broad offering of flexible materials, and number one in sustainable packaging options, according to CEO Greg Tucker.
When the CIC opens in the spring of 2021, it will be a center for development, prototyping, and rapid evaluation of new packaging, as well as training and state-of-the-art collaboration space to host customer ideation sessions. “The benefit of having all of our application testing, prototyping and short run pouch production under one roof is that a customer can arrive with a packaging design issue and leave with printed, prototype samples,” said Tucker. “Our new facility will compress the design timeline significantly.”
The nearly $8-million center will create 40 new jobs and add 25,000 square feet to the company’s manufacturing facility at 2605 Manitou Road in the Town of Ogden, N.Y. near Rochester. The existing pouch manufacturing facility has an ISO 7 class 10,000 clean-room certification and serves the agricultural chemical, personal care, medical and pharmaceutical markets offering low to medium volume production of flexible packaging.
