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Hood Container Mill Modernization Project

Sector: Manufacturing (Industrial) • Location: St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States

Source: Recycling Today

Project
Planned

Hood Container Corp. is investing $118.9 million to modernize its legacy paper mill in St. Francisville, Louisiana. The project aims to upgrade the primary paper machine to increase production capacity by about 80,000 tons per year and improve product quality. The modernization will also increase the company's consumption of wood chips and recovered paper annually. The project will be executed in

Status
Prospective
Sector
Manufacturing (Industrial), Forest Products and Packaging, Warehouse
Location
St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States of America
Updated
22 Jul 2026
Source
Recycling Today

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The project “Hood Container Mill Modernization Project” is an infrastructure initiative in the Manufacturing (Industrial) sector, located in St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States. Taiyo aggregates data on it from Recycling Today.

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Hood Container Corp. is investing $118.9 million to modernize its legacy paper mill in St. Francisville, Louisiana. The project aims to upgrade the primary paper machine to increase production capacity by about 80,000 tons per year and improve product quality. The modernization will also increase the company's consumption of wood chips and recovered paper annually. The project will be executed in two phases over two years, with the first phase starting in Q3 2026 and completion expected by May 2027 during the annual mill outage.

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Industrial

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United States of America (USA)

State

Louisiana

City

St. Francisville

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Manufacturing (Industrial), Forest Products and Packaging, Warehouse

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2025-09-16

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