Automation takes center stage at Smurfit Westrock ‘superplant’ in Wisconsin
“Super” is an adjective that gets thrown around casually in modern society, but Smurfit Westrock’s leadership believes it’s a suitable label for its year-old, large-scale corrugated box manufacturing plant in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.
It was the first facility that top management colloquially called a “superplant” during a groundbreaking in June 2024 under WestRock, which months later became Smurfit Westrock. Now the box plant is among an elite few in the company’s network that bear the descriptor. Such hubs are designed to serve key regions of high demand and volume, in lieu of having multiple nearby plants. For instance, SW closed a legacy plant in nearby North Chicago, Illinois, around the time the superplant opened.
So what specific qualities define a superplant? The designation signifies scale, a high level of advanced………
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