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Capital & Financial MarketsOperations & Footprint 18 Sep 2026

Graphic Packaging to close Lebanon, Tennessee plant after cutting full-year guidance

Graphic Packaging has disclosed plans to close its Lebanon, Tennessee facility as part of a capacity rationalisation programme, after cutting its full-year earnings guidance. Shares hit 52-week lows amid a broader materials-sector selloff tied to the 10-year Treasury yield reaching 5%. Analysts have since trimmed price targets, citing a weaker outlook for packaging demand and pricing.

Why this mattersA closure alongside a guidance cut points to weaker North American paperboard demand, with competing converters facing the same volume and pricing pressure.

  • Graphic Packaging plans to close its Lebanon, Tennessee facility as part of a capacity rationalisation programme
  • The company has cut its full-year earnings guidance
  • Shares hit 52-week lows amid a broader materials-sector selloff
  • Analysts have trimmed price targets citing a weaker packaging demand and pricing outlook
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Sources tipranks.com
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  • 2026-09-21 · Edited before publication: Grounded, though the source carries no figures. Headline mixed tenses. Materiality raised to 4: a plant closure plus a full-year guidance cut is material to a core company, whatever the thinness of the source.
  • 2026-09-21 · Edited before publication: The closure and guidance cut are grounded, but the summary asserted that shares fell to 52-week lows 'following the announcements', while the source attributes the move to a mix of triple witching, a materials selloff on the 10-year yield and the guidance cut. Summary rewritten to match the source's causation and to lead with the closure. 'Structural overcapacity' in why