HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 22, 2026--
Buckeye Corrugated, Inc. (BCI) has expanded its Houston operations with a new, dedicated Contract Packaging & Fulfillment facility designed to support growing customer demand for integrated packaging, assembly and fulfillment solutions.
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Offering more than 60,000 square feet of dedicated operating space, the facility builds on services previously provided within BCI’s existing Houston Division while significantly increasing the company’s capacity, flexibility and ability to manage complex, high-volume programs.
“This expansion gives our Houston team the dedicated space and resources to provide customers with a more comprehensive and scalable solution,” said Jess Stitzel, General Manager, BCI Houston. “By bringing packaging, assembly and fulfillment capabilities together, we can help customers simplify their operations, improve consistency and move products to market more efficiently.”
The new facility offers a comprehensive range of Contract Packaging & Fulfillment services, including:
These capabilities support a wide range of customer needs, from individual packaging projects and new product launches to seasonal promotions, retail programs and ongoing production requirements.
By combining Contract Packaging & Fulfillment services with BCI’s corrugated packaging manufacturing, structural design and production expertise, the Houston operation provides customers with a coordinated, end-to-end solution. This integrated approach can reduce production handoffs, improve quality and consistency, and streamline the process from packaging development through final distribution.
The facility’s Houston location also offers important logistical advantages. Its proximity to the Port of Houston, major distribution centers, warehouses and extensive transportation infrastructure positions BCI to support regional, national and international supply chains.
Customers can coordinate the receipt of products and components, packaging and assembly operations, and preparation of finished goods for distribution through a strategically located operation. For businesses managing complex supply chains, this can help reduce handling, simplify logistics and improve speed to market.
The dedicated facility represents BCI’s staunch commitment to American Sourced & Made solutions and continued investment in the people, capabilities and infrastructure needed to support customers in an increasingly demanding marketplace. It also strengthens the company’s national Contract Packaging & Fulfillment network while expanding the responsive, locally managed service available through its Houston team.
From packaging production through final fulfillment, BCI provides the capabilities, flexibility and operational expertise needed to keep products moving. To learn more about BCI’s Contract Packaging & Fulfillment capabilities, visit www.bcipkg.com/solution/contract-packaging.
About Buckeye Corrugated, Inc.
Founded in 1958, Buckeye Corrugated, Inc. (BCI) is a U.S.-based manufacturer of American Sourced and Made corrugated packaging and retail display solutions serving leading brands across food & beverage, consumer goods, retail, industrial, and building materials markets. With facilities across the United States, BCI combines innovative design, operational discipline, and American-sourced and -made manufacturing to deliver packaging built to perform across industrial, ecommerce, and retail environments. For more information, visit bcipkg.com.
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BCI’s Houston Contract Packaging & Fulfillment facility brings together product assembly, retail display assembly, kitting, labeling, and fulfillment preparation to help businesses streamline packaging operations, improve efficiency, and get products ready for distribution.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After Ashley Hinson dropped off her boys at school earlier this month, she saw the initials “DJT” flash on her phone.
“'Ashley, it's your favorite president,'” Iowa's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate recently recounted to an audience of her supporters. “That's how he introduced himself.”
She had had a more forceful message about communicating with President Donald Trump on the debate stage with her Democratic opponent, Josh Turek, as she tried to win over undecided voters.
“I’ll be President Trump’s ally when it is important for Iowa, but I will push back on him,” promised Hinson, who currently serves in the U.S. House. “He knows this.”
Although many Republicans are walking a political tightrope in this year's midterm elections, Hinson's balancing act is more challenging than most. Iowans have been hamstrung by manufacturing job losses, health care clinic closures and shrunken farm profits since Trump returned to the White House, but Hinson also is relying on the president's loyalists to show up for her.
On Thursday, Hinson took the stage before Trump came on, at a rally in Sioux City, which is in Iowa's conservative northwest corner. The visit to safe territory is geared toward boosting turnout even as it ties her more tightly to an unpopular president.
To hundreds of Trump's supporters, Hinson played up her relationship with the president.
“I’m not sure, frankly, that he’s always happy when we’re talking because I ask him for a lot of things for Iowa when we’re on the phone,” she said. “And that’s exactly what you would expect me to do, right? As your next United States senator.”
Trump is expected to visit the state again Nov. 1. He is “anxious for Iowans to hear his message before they vote,” Iowa Republican Party Chair Jeff Kaufmann said in announcing the president's schedule.
Turek, a state lawmaker, was in Sioux City for a campaign event Tuesday and told reporters he was happy for Trump to visit to see how his tariffs and the Iran war have “hurt Iowa more than any other state.” Although Turek says he's willing to work with Trump on issues like immigration, he called Hinson a rubber stamp for the president's bad policies.
When Hinson kicked off her campaign last year, she touted Trump’s endorsement and said she was running to be Trump’s “top ally” in the Senate. Almost a year later, Hinson instead says she wants to be “Iowa’s best bipartisan fighter."
The message has crystallized since the summer, with more examples of Hinson vocalizing positions at odds with the president. Recent polling from late September and early October suggests it could work as she carves out about 1 in 10 voters who disapprove of the president even as she continues to secure overwhelming support from those who approve of Trump.
In August, she said Trump’s plan to increase beef imports from foreign countries in an attempt to lower prices was "a bad idea” that would hurt Iowa farmers.
Last month, two of Hinson's Iowa colleagues in the House broke with the White House and voted against Trump's ability to continue the war with Iran without congressional approval.
Hinson didn’t, but she said later the war has gotten too costly for Americans and called for Trump to bring the conflict to a “successful and immediate end.”
More recently, Hinson criticized Trump’s decision to ease sanctions on Russia in exchange for diesel fuel. She said Tuesday that the U.S. needs to make sure “dictators aren’t allowed to win wars.”
“I think the president and I share the goal of lowering costs for working families and for people who are using diesel,” she told reporters after a campaign event. “I, again, just don’t think we need to be making any deals with Russia.”
Hinson said she hadn’t talked with the president about the issue.
“Maybe I’ll have a chance to come have a conversation with him at the rally," she added.
Hinson isn't the only one pitching bipartisanship. So is Turek. In fact, he's the only Iowa candidate seeking federal office who explicitly mentions Trump in general election television advertisements, according to an Associated Press analysis of AdImpact data.
In one, Turek is behind the wheel speaking directly to a camera about Interstate 35, which “connects Iowa to the southern border and the broken immigration system that both parties have failed to fix." He says: “In the U.S. Senate, I’ll work with anyone to fix it, including President Trump, to secure the border, stop the flow of drugs into Iowa.”
Turek has pushed back on the president’s policies, including tariffs and the war in Iran, as the catalysts of high costs that are hurting Iowans, but his message on working with the president on immigration and other select issues stands out from other Democrats. Republicans say he's just pretending to be a moderate to get elected.
Mazie Stilwell, executive director of the progressive organization Progress Iowa, said Turek's message on immigration targets a bloc of voters on an issue that's particularly important to them but doesn't overshadow his otherwise disciplined focus on the high costs facing Iowans.
Trump’s visit to the state Thursday, she added, is “a terrific reminder of the disaster that he has been and his administration has been for our bottom line, for everyday Iowans who are trying to make ends meet.”
Iowa is no stranger to competitive Senate races even though Trump won the state by double digits in the last presidential election.
Ad spending on broadcast and cable television has already surpassed $200 million this cycle, AdImpact shows. But in today’s dollars, the total ad spending in the 2020 Senate race was even higher.
Republicans have spent slightly more for Hinson than Democrats for Turek. That was the opposite in 2020, when Democrats spent nearly $30 million more than the GOP did in their unsuccessful effort to unseat Sen. Joni Ernst.
Iowa Republican activist Kelley Koch has been concerned that complacency will dampen turnout from conservatives, even those who are loyal to the president.
"They say, ‘Why are you all hyped up about the midterms, Kelley, Trump will take care of everything,'” Koch said.
It’s an assumption she’s working to counteract, and she expects “the Trump effect” from his visits will help protect Republican majorities in the House and Senate.
And while Koch supports Hinson, she doesn’t like it when she talks about pushing back on Trump.
“Right now,” Koch said, “we had better unite around our president.”
Associated Press reporter Aaron Kessler in Washington contributed.
Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, speaks to supporters, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, in Ankeny, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
