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Middletown packaging plant set to close; dozens of layoffs planned
WLWT • • business
Key Points:
- The Packaging Corporation of America is closing its Middletown plant this fall, resulting in 91 planned layoffs, with the final workday set for December 1 and full vacating by year-end.
- The closure is part of a consolidation strategy to focus on larger, more efficient operations, including a new $275 million plant that recently opened near Columbus.
- The company pledged to assist affected employees with job placement or transfers to other PCA locations and will collaborate with state and local officials for worker support.
- Ohio has been losing jobs steadily over the past two years, with about 23,500 fewer jobs than in October 2024, including a recent closure of a Springfield truck manufacturing plant causing nearly 1,400 layoffs.
- Despite job losses, Ohio’s unemployment rate has dropped to a historic low of 3.3%, continuing a downward trend since the peak of 16.5% during the COVID-19 pandemic.
