Quad/Graphics is planting a major new flag in Salt Lake City, with a 100,000-square-foot packaging plant set to come online in the fourth quarter of 2026. The company has already started recruiting production and warehouse staff, signaling that hiring is ramping up well before the presses start rolling. The facility is expected to boost West Coast packaging capacity for both national and regional consumer brands.
Company announcement
In its official rollout, Quad framed the Salt Lake City site as a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility designed to round out its national packaging footprint and speed up deliveries for customers across the western United States. The company said the plant is slated to be operational in the fourth quarter of 2026, according to a release from PR Newswire.
Local hiring already under way
Quad is not waiting for move-in day to start building its team. The company has already begun hiring for the Salt Lake operation, a signal it wants to move quickly from announcement to production. As reported by the Milwaukee Business Journal, current recruiting is focused on roles tied directly to packaging operations.
Jobs and roles
Quad's careers pages show openings in Salt Lake City for production-floor roles such as folder/gluer operator and shipping-and-receiving technician, with postings appearing in recent months. Those listings point to the machine-operator and warehouse positions needed to staff a modern packaging line, and the company is actively recruiting to fill them. Interested applicants can find local positions on Quad.
Equipment and operations
Industry outlets that picked up Quad's announcement report that the Salt Lake facility will feature end-to-end packaging capabilities, including a Heidelberg XL 106 press with UV capabilities, a sheeter, die cutters, and folding gluers, and that it will launch with existing client volume from brands in the western U.S. Those details were reported by Investing.com, which republished the company release.
Why Salt Lake City?
Quad has pointed to Salt Lake City's direct interstate access and sizeable skilled labor pool as key advantages, factors the company says will help reduce lead times for consumer-packaged-goods work. Local reporting also highlights a broader uptick in manufacturing projects in the region, including other recent 100,000-square-foot plant announcements, which together suggest growing advanced-manufacturing activity in the Salt Lake market. The Salt Lake Business Journal has covered several of those moves.
Company lines
"This is an important milestone for Quad's packaging offering," Chairman and CEO Joel Quadracci said in the company's announcement, adding corporate heft to the project. Quad's packaging leadership has also said the new Salt Lake City plant will improve service for both national consumer brands and regional companies, according to PR Newswire.
