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Article: 99 workers will lose their jobs as joint venture takes over plant: CORRUGATED CARDBOARD.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2007
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Byline: David Robinson
Sep. 8--Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. will close its Buffalo plant and convert it into a joint venture with Jamestown Container and Norampac that will supply corrugated cardboard sheets for Norampac's Lancaster factory, the companies said Friday.
The move will eliminate 99 jobs at the Smurfit-Stone plant but then create an unspecified number of new jobs early next year, once the factory is retooled and reopens under the joint venture.
The plant then will be under the direction of the joint venture's majority partner, Jamestown Container, and will become the supplier of corrugated sheets for Norampac's Lancaster factory. ...