As announced this afternoon (Wednesday) St. Thomas will soon be home to one of the largest corrugated packaging companies in Southern Ontario. Royal Containers will move into the former Schulman plant on South Edgeware Road.
It’s an expansion of their present facility in London. Royal Containers employs over 275 people, operating on 3 shifts, 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday, advises president & CEO, Kim Nelson.
Approximately 45 to 50,000,000 square feet of corrugated boxes and displays are shipped to Ontario customers
every month.
In a release, the decision to move Royal Containers’ western facility to a larger footprint at 400 South Edgeware Road was made to address growth and to increase the capacity of their present location in London, advises president & CEO, Kim Nelson, who added many other factors contributed as well.
“First of all, being in the top three of 2021 McLean’s magazine’s Best Places to Live in Canada made St. Thomas a very attractive location. We are super excited to join this community and extend our congratulations to all the people who live and work here for attaining this distinction.”
Royal Containers was founded in 1980 by Ross Nelson.
Written by Ian McCallum
