Waterloo, NY, October 9, 2018– Waterloo Container is pleased to announce an expansion project which includes a 36,000 square foot addition to the main office and warehouse location at 2311 Route 414.

“Our expansion is indicative of the health and growth of the wine, spirits and craft beverage industries in the area, which we are proud to support.  The additional jobs will benefit the community and our additional space will allow us to offer enhanced services and a more comprehensive in-stock selection.” – Bill Lutz, President and Owner Waterloo Container Company

This project commenced earlier this fall and is expected to be completed by the end of this year.  Footers and steel beams are being placed and over 400 cubic yards of cement has been poured as of Monday October 8. Waterloo Container supplies packaging materials including glass bottles, caps, closures to the wine, spirits and craft beverage industries throughout the United States and Canada. The new building will allow expansion and reconfiguration of Waterloo Container’s massive glass bottle and packaging supply inventory.  This inventory movement will create space for the addition of a second state of the art re-pack line (which moves bulk glass into convenient individual cases) and for continued growth of a high speed shrink sleeving applicator and tunnel.

“Waterloo Container is excited to be growing to meet the needs of our growing client base and looks forward to being able to offer additional jobs in the community and enhanced services to our customers” says CEO Rich Swinehart.

In addition to the structural additions, there have been recent upgrades to network infrastructure.  These improvements will help customer service representatives access information more quickly and allow us to get the bottles, caps and closure orders placed with even greater accuracy.  Wiring, switches and servers have been enhanced and there are added software programs to improve the way we handle requests and manage information flow in and out of the building.  New security solutions have been added to protect our customers’ information as well as our own.

IT manager Chris Plate says “We have made a lot of great improvements and plan to keep up with technological advances as they present themselves”.