Nelipak opens flexible packaging facility in North Carolina

Nelipak Corp.’s Nelipak Healthcare Packaging business has opened its first North American flexible packaging production plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

The brand-new 110,000-ft², Class A industrial facility has ISO-7 clean room space, all new state-of-the art production equipment, and ISO 13485 certification. It joins Nelipak’s three other flexible packaging sites in Europe “to support growing customer demand in the Americas region,” the company said.

Cranston, Rhode Island-based Nelipak Healthcare Packaging’s flexible product line includes custom-designed roll-stock, die cut lids and sheets, pouches, and bags with a wide range of material substrates  such as films, Tyvek, papers, foil-laminates and Nelipak’s heat-seal coating technologies, including Nelipak CR27 and SBP2000.

“We are thrilled to announce the opening of our first flexible packaging site in the Americas, bringing our high-quality flexible healthcare packaging products closer to our customers in the region,” Nelipak CEO Pat Chambliss said in a news release. “We are open for business in Winston-Salem and are actively developing and delivering high-quality sterile-barrier packaging solutions which also help our customers deliver on their sustainability and business continuity objectives.”

Nelipak announced its plans for the project in 2022. The expansion was supported by the North Carolina One NC fund, the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, the North Carolina legislature, the North Carolina Community College System, Forsyth County, the City of Winston-Salem and the  Greater Winston-Salem Inc. economic development organization.

Nelipak now has six sites in the U.S. and Costa Rica, as well as five sites in Ireland, the Netherlands and the U.K., with 1,400 employees across those locations.

You can take a look inside the new facility and hear from the project team in the video from Nelipak Healthcare Packaging below: