By Ben Miller | Phoenix Business Journal
Ball Corp. said it will build a new beverage packaging plant in Goodyear while shuttering three beverage packaging plants elsewhere in the U.S.
The Broomfield, Colorado-based can giant (NYSE: BLL) will open a new facility in Goodyear sometime in the second quarter of 2018 and close plants in Birmingham, Alabama, Chatsworth, California, and Longview, Texas, in 2018.
The Alabama plant employed 91 and is expected to close by the second quarter of next year. The California plant employed 118 and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018. The Texas plant employed 100 people and is expected to close by the end of the second quarter of next year.
