10/21/2013
Box Plant
This property was originally purchased in 2000 by the Jefferson Smurfit Corporation (JSC) producer of cardboard and paper based packaging.
JSC was founded in 1934 in Dublin, Ireland. The company partially merged with Chicago based Stone Container Corporation to become Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation in 1998. Jefferson Smurfit was bought out in 2002. In 2005 i merged with Kappa Packaging and changed it's name again to Smurfit Kappa. In 2012 it bought Orange County Container, another US based packaging company.
They currently produce cardboard packaging of all types, store displays, packaging machines and more.
in 2003 the property changed hands to Agri-Products Inc.
Agri-Products formed in 1985 and manufactures agriculture equipment such as tillers and tractor-mounted liquid spray tanks.
In 2007 the property was again sold, this time to Elberta Crate and Box Co.
Elberta Crate and Box Co has been producing wire bound crates and boxes since 1905 and are based out of Georgia. These are crates you typically see vegetables and seafood shipped in to markets.
I'm unsure when this site was abandoned. There was one dated magazine we found inside from 2010, and some dated air filters from 2009.
There is a small burned out building in the front, which could have been an office where shipments where checked in and out. The long concrete pad the hulking rusty truck is parked on could have been parking for tractor trailers, or even the base of a warehouse. If manufacturing was done on this site over the years, this would have been a good place for a long warehouse.
The building in the back appeared to be a truck repair and weigh station.
JSC was founded in 1934 in Dublin, Ireland. The company partially merged with Chicago based Stone Container Corporation to become Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation in 1998. Jefferson Smurfit was bought out in 2002. In 2005 i merged with Kappa Packaging and changed it's name again to Smurfit Kappa. In 2012 it bought Orange County Container, another US based packaging company.
They currently produce cardboard packaging of all types, store displays, packaging machines and more.
in 2003 the property changed hands to Agri-Products Inc.
Agri-Products formed in 1985 and manufactures agriculture equipment such as tillers and tractor-mounted liquid spray tanks.
In 2007 the property was again sold, this time to Elberta Crate and Box Co.
Elberta Crate and Box Co has been producing wire bound crates and boxes since 1905 and are based out of Georgia. These are crates you typically see vegetables and seafood shipped in to markets.
I'm unsure when this site was abandoned. There was one dated magazine we found inside from 2010, and some dated air filters from 2009.
There is a small burned out building in the front, which could have been an office where shipments where checked in and out. The long concrete pad the hulking rusty truck is parked on could have been parking for tractor trailers, or even the base of a warehouse. If manufacturing was done on this site over the years, this would have been a good place for a long warehouse.
The building in the back appeared to be a truck repair and weigh station.
