Mohawk to Expand Envelope Manufacturing

Mohawk plans to operate a new envelope manufacturing facility in the town of South Hadley, MA, creating up to 40 new jobs. North America’s largest privately owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty substrates intends to enter into a seven-year lease agreement on the 112,342-square-foot facility. Pending successful completion of the ongoing lease negotiation, construction is scheduled to begin in early January 2015, and the facility is expected to be fully functional by the end of April 2015.

“Our plan to create a new envelope converting facility in South Hadley, MA, represents our commitment to further growth of Mohawk’s envelope business,” said Thomas D. O’Connor, Jr., chairman and CEO, Mohawk. "Our envelope business is vibrant, rapidly growing, and we are uniquely positioned to serve our customers with fast delivery, exceptional integrity, and the highest quality envelopes available in the industry.”

Mohawk will invest up to $2 million to retrofit the facility and expects to produce over 500 million envelopes annually there. The site will also feature warehouse space to service the company’s customers along the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic regions, as well as overseas businesses.

Mohawk also owns and operates a one million square-foot, state-of-the-art paper and envelope converting facility in Ashtabula, OH, which produces 1.5 billion envelopes a year. In early 2014, Mohawk grew its envelope operations at its Ohio facility by adding 75 new employees and expanding operations by investing millions of dollars in converting equipment upgrades.