Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation inaugurates new Cerritos facility in Los Angeles
Wed. October 08, 2008; Posted: 03:57 AM
Oct 08, 2008 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) --
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PowerRating -- Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (Nasdaq: SSCC), an integrated
containerboard and corrugated packaging producer, declared on 7 October
the opening of its new USD42m Cerritos facility. The corrugated
container manufacturing plantwill serve the Southern California
beverage, consumer goods, medical, food and produce and garment
markets.
The Cerritos facility can reportedly produce as much as 2.3 billion
square feet of corrugated board per year and an average of 350 boxes a
minute.
The company has also committed to achieving greenhouse gas emission
reductions of 6% below baseline by 2010 and uses a high-efficiency
boiler and highly efficient make-up air heaters to reduce energy
consumption.
Recycling operations recovered 7 million tons of valuable materials
from the waste stream in 2007, including 6.8 million tons of recovered
paper. About 41% of the recovered paper was used as raw material in the
company's containerboard manufacturing operations.
In addition, the company donated 1,000 seedlings to support urban
forestry in California during the opening of the Cerritos plant.
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