With its box sales growing in new directions, Jamel Containers has itself boxed up its machinery and moved to a bigger facility in Chattanooga.
The 28-year-old company, which began in Fort Payne, Ala., serving that city’s sock industry, relocated over the past four months into a new 52,000-square-foot plant on Chattanooga’s Southside.
“Due to the textile industry moving out of the Fort Payne area, we began looking at different markets,” said J. Perry Morris, vice president and general manager of the business since 2001. “The manufacturing market in Chattanooga was growing, and we began serving more businesses in health, food and other industries in and around Chattanooga.”
Morris said the company’s new leased facility on Polk Street is closer to most of Jamel’s customers, including Chattem, Chattanooga Bakery and others.
“That not only helps control costs, but more importantly provides the area with 25 new jobs,” Morris said.