Pratt Industries officially opened its fourth, 100 percent recycled paper mill in Valparaiso, Indiana, recently with a gala luncheon attended by more than 300 guests including Indiana Govenor Mike Pence.
The new mill, which will produce 500,000 tons of the industry’s best recycled paper at capacity, will supply our rapidly-best expanding Midwest box-making operations.
“This is the most environmentally friendly and modern containerboard mill in the world,” said company chairman Anthony Pratt. “We’re proud that we are the only major paper company that produces only 100 percent recycled paper and these days this is very important to our customers. In doing so we save 68,000 trees a day or enough to cover 120 football fields.
“What’s also important to our customers is cost effective packaging and this technologically advanced mill will produce lightweight papers that produce boxes that work at lower cost.”
The mill, located 50 miles southeast of Chicago, is on the same site as Pratt’s corrugated box plant, the world’s largest.
