Last summer, the Canton, NC-based, employee-owned company closed its Morristown, NJ facility in a move that eliminated 100 jobs. Like Fort Worth, the location was a manufacturing site for gable-top containers for beverage packaging.
The Fort Worth facility at 1901 Windsor Place consists of a 104,000-sf, 51-year-old building on 4.3 acres and an adjoining 34,000-sf structure, built in 1977 on 1.3 acres. The combined assessment is $1.9 million, according to Tarrant Appraisal District records. Blue Ridge's executives didn't return telephone calls by publication time for comment about the real estate disposition.
The paper company, touted as the nation's second-largest producer in its industry, also operates an extrusion coating facility in Waynesville, NC and packaging plants in Olmsted Falls, OH, Clinton, IA, Athens, GA and Richmond, VA.
The Fort Worth factory will close by midyear. Of the 120-employee workforce, 100 are members of the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical & Energy Workers International Union. In a press release issued yesterday, the company said the displaced workforce will receive severance packages, including seniority-based wages and be eligible for continuation of company-provided medical benefits as well as job search assistance.
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