Visy announced the opening of its new corrugated box plant in Hemmant, Queensland, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new box plant \u2014 opened on Oct. 9 by Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick and Federal Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic \u2014 has the capacity to produce 1 million boxes per day, which will be utilized by food and beverage companies, farmers and growers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The state-of-the-art facility is part of Visy Executive Chairman Anthony Pratt’s commitment to invest $2 billion over the next decade \u2014 $700 million of that in Queensland-to reduce landfill, cut emissions and create thousands of green collar Australian manufacturing jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pratt praised the Queensland Treasurer’s championing of Queensland manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Queensland Government has created a great business environment for manufacturers to invest and grow in Queensland,” said Pratt. “We’ve invested $175 million to build the most productive and technically advanced corrugated box making facility in the country. We’ve installed the latest 2.8m wide corrugator – the most modern corrugator in the southern hemisphere.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of going to landfill or export, Visy recycles mixed paper and cardboard from Queensland businesses and households at its Gibson Island recycling facility and remanufactures it into 100% recycled paper. The new Hemmant factory will use the 100% recycled paper to make corrugated boxes for the state’s farmers, and iconic food and beverage companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“100% recycled boxes from this facility are one of the ways we’re using all of Australia’s paper and cardboard, so it doesn’t have to be landfilled or exported,” Pratt noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The facility will directly employ over 100 Queenslanders in ongoing green-collar manufacturing jobs on site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visy is a leading, privately owned packaging and resource recovery company, with more than 120 sites across Australia, New Zealand and Thailand and trading offices across Asia, Europe and the USA.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visy announced the opening of its new corrugated box plant in Hemmant, Queensland, Australia. The new box plant \u2014 opened on Oct. 9 by Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick and Federal Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic \u2014 has the capacity to produce 1 million boxes per day, which will be utilized by food and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[824],"class_list":{"0":"post-11717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corrugated-folding-carton","8":"tag-visy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11719,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717\/revisions\/11719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}