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First Quality Packaging Solutions plans Macon factory

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June 18, 2015

A New York-based manufacturing company said this week it will establish a factory in Macon where it will make plastic packaging for the food and health care industries.

First Quality Packaging Solutions plans to create 115 jobs in Macon at a new facility where it will invest more than $68 million, the company and economic development officials said in a Wednesday news release.

The company is related to First Quality Baby Products, which makes diapers at a facility in Macon. The new factory is expected to begin production early next year, the release stated.

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