Worcester-based packaging manufacturer Rand-Whitney Container opened its new 384,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Boylston on Thursday.Â
The facility is expected to be able to produce 300 million boxes annually, according to a press release from Rand Whitney’s parent The Kraft Group of Foxborough.
Gov. Maura Healey and Robert Kraft, who owns The Kraft Group and the New England Patriots, attended the opening ceremony on Thursday.
Rand-Whitney’s history goes back to 1857 when Elvira Dodge manufactured and sold boxed out of her home in Leominster. Whitney Box of Worcester acquired Dodge Paper Box in 1938 to become Rand-Whitney. The company produces corrugated displays, shipping containers and digitally printed materials to a variety of industrial and consumer end-users, according to the press release.
Sutton-based UN1F1ED² Global Packaging Group will take over a second industrial building at the site, a 325,000-square-foot warehouse facility. The company is owned as a partnership between The Kraft Group and AGlobal Solutions, formerly known as Atlas Box and Crating.
RP Masiello of Boylston is constructing a new 1-million-square-foot distribution center in Sutton for UN1F1ED².
Both structures were built by New Hampshire contractor PROCON, which broke ground on the facility in April 2022.
