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Packaging suppliers in United States

Providers serving United States. An independent listing for packers, growers and traders.

54 providers
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Manufacturer of custom corrugated packaging, including custom cartons, heavy-duty boxes, and food and beverage shipping containers, operating out of Long Beach.

Cartons and boxes
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Ag Box Company supplies produce cartons, bins, pallets, wooden liners, and clamshells to growers and shippers from its Fresno, California location, one of three it operates on California's Central Coast and Central Valley.

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Amcor is a global packaging company that produces flexible and barrier films, folding cartons, and specialty packaging for food, beverage, healthcare, and consumer goods, including fresh-produce, meat, and dairy applications.

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Houston packaging supplier of corrugated boxes, die-cut cartons, and shipping/labeling supplies with no minimum pickup, operating in the Houston area for over 45 years.

Cartons and boxesLabels
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A North Charleston packaging company producing custom wood crates, pallets, and skids, with export packaging and container loading services for overseas shipments.

Pallets
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An Oakland pallet supplier, distributor, and recycler operating since 2017, providing new and used wood pallets on a wholesale basis.

Pallets
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Corrugated box manufacturer operating a 200,000-square-foot plant in Newark since 1919, producing custom corrugated boxes, die cuts and displays for the NY/NJ metro food and beverage trade.

Cartons and boxes
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Family-owned corrugated box manufacturer operating since 1941, producing custom RSC cartons, die-cut boxes, partitions and pads for food and industrial customers across Southern California.

Cartons and boxes
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Vietnamese packaging manufacturer producing corrugated carton boxes in 3, 5, and 7-ply, including wax-coated corrugated cartons designed for fresh fruit and vegetable packaging and export.

Cartons and boxes
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Supplies corrugated cartons, egg cartons, molded fiber packaging, and film/bag packaging to food and produce customers from its Ontario, California facility; sister companies in the same group provide warehousing and 3PL transportation.

Cartons and boxesLiners and pads
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CTP Boxes & Packaging is a Miami-based custom printing and packaging company producing folding carton, litho-laminated, and corrugated specialty boxes.

Cartons and boxes
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Fruit Packers Supply has provided corrugated boxes and post-harvest packaging to apple, cherry, and pear packers in Washington's fruit belt since 1960, operating from its Yakima, WA facility.

Cartons and boxes
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Givens operates a packing and crating facility in Savannah, Georgia, providing custom export packaging, on-site labeling, and repacking services for cargo moving through the port.

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Highland Packaging Solutions manufactures clamshell containers and applies custom labels for berries, tomatoes, table grapes, and other fresh produce lines from its Plant City, FL manufacturing plant.

Clamshells and punnetsLabels
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Huhtamaki is a global food-packaging manufacturer producing moulded-fibre trays and punnets, flexible films, paperboard, and foodservice packaging, including packaging used for fresh produce and food-on-the-shelf.

Clamshells and punnetsMAP and barrier films
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Manufactures clamshell and tray packaging for fresh produce, berries, and baked goods with over 200 packaging configurations, headquartered and manufacturing in Shelton, Connecticut.

Clamshells and punnets
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Wood pallet supplier and recycler serving Long Beach and LA County, offering new, used, and Grade A-C pallets with repair and delivery services from its Long Beach yard.

Pallets
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Miami folding-carton manufacturer producing custom cartons, rigid/set-up boxes, and POP displays with in-house die-cutting, embossing, and lamination finishing.

Cartons and boxes
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Full-service pallet and wood crate manufacturing facility serving the Gulf Coast industrial region from Pasadena, Texas, part of the national Millwood pallet and packaging network that separately offers ISPM-15 heat treatment.

Pallets
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Munot Plastics manufactures hinged plastic clamshell containers for berries, salads, and other fresh produce from its Erie, Pennsylvania facility, in PET, PVC, and polypropylene materials.

Clamshells and punnets
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Pacific AgPak manufactures clamshells, tray liners, poly bags, and custom labels for strawberries, grapes, tomatoes, mushrooms, and other fresh produce from its Watsonville, CA facility.

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Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is a publicly traded (NYSE: PKG) manufacturer of corrugated packaging and containerboard, operating full-line box plants in produce-growing regions including California's Central Valley (Kingsburg), central Florida (Winter Haven) and Idaho (Nampa), with a dedicated produce packaging line.

Cartons and boxes
1 facilityproduce
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PalletOne is a Bartow, Florida-headquartered new wood pallet manufacturer operating as a UFP Packaging company (a subsidiary of UFP Industries, which acquired it in December 2020), producing wooden pallets, harvest bins and crates used across the U.S. agricultural supply chain.

Pallets
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Printpack is an Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered flexible and specialty rigid packaging manufacturer with a dedicated fresh produce packaging line offering modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) film, rollstock, lidstock, pre-made bags and bag liners for fruit and vegetable applications.

MAP and barrier filmsLiners and pads
1 facilityfresh produce
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Sambrailo Packaging, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Watsonville, California, manufactures produce clamshells, corrugated cartons, and trays for the fresh produce industry, including a 100% post-consumer-recycled clamshell line.

Clamshells and punnetsCartons and boxes
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Thailand-headquartered multinational packaging company producing corrugated and paper packaging, foodservice packaging, and fresh-produce solutions, including modified-atmosphere OptiBreath films used to extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.

Cartons and boxesMAP and barrier films
6 facilitiespackaging paper+5
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Family-owned since 1889, manufactures corrugated, wood, and modified-atmosphere-packaging (MAP) solutions used throughout the Pacific Northwest fruit, vegetable, and seafood markets, headquartered in Kent, Washington near the Port of Seattle/Tacoma.

Cartons and boxesMAP and barrier films
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Signode Industrial Group is a Tampa, Florida-headquartered manufacturer of strapping systems, stretch wrapping equipment and protective packaging, with a dedicated fresh produce packaging line offering PP and PET strapping and wrapping solutions for produce growers and packers.

Strapping
1 facilityfresh produce
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Smurfit Westrock is a global paper-based packaging company producing corrugated boxes, fresh-produce trays and boxes, folding cartons, containerboard, and bag-in-box systems.

Cartons and boxes
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SupplyOne operates a branch facility in Newark, NJ supplying custom corrugated cartons, folding cartons, labels, tape and strapping to food, beverage, distribution and manufacturing customers across Northern New Jersey and the NYC metro area.

Cartons and boxesLabels+1
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Thomas Group Printing is a fourth-generation, family-owned commercial printer in Manhattan that manufactures custom corrugated boxes and cartons with embossing, die-cutting and foil-stamp finishing, delivering across NYC's five boroughs.

Cartons and boxes
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Tosca Services is a reusable plastic container (RPC) and pooling provider for produce, protein, egg and dairy supply chains, operating a U.S. network of service and wash centers including facilities in Newnan, Georgia and Riverside, California.

Pallets
1 facilityproduce
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India's largest flexible packaging materials company, headquartered in Noida. Manufactures BOPP, BOPET and CPP packaging films (including metallized and barrier grades) used for food, beverage, pharma and industrial packaging, with manufacturing plants across four continents.

MAP and barrier films
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Vista Color Corp is a family-owned manufacturer of paperboard folding cartons and flexible packaging, including blister cards and clamshell inserts, for food and consumer-goods brands.

Cartons and boxesClamshells and punnets
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A Seattle supplier of insulated packaging for temperature-sensitive shipments since 1990, including insulating box liners, pallet covers, gel ice packs, and cargo/ice blankets.

Liners and pads
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Full-service corrugated box manufacturer operating for over 55 years from Perrysburg, Ohio, producing slotted boxes, folders, die-cut boxes, interior forms, and trays for the Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana tri-state industrial market.

Cartons and boxesLiners and pads
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Third-generation, family-owned corrugated box manufacturer headquartered at 601 N Hague Ave, Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1966, operating a 100,000 square foot facility producing custom corrugated boxes and flexible packaging for central Ohio industrial customers.

Cartons and boxesLiners and pads
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Distributor of corrugated produce cartons, including waxed, dry, and strawberry cartons, plus wooden crates, based in Santa Maria, California and serving Central Coast growers and packing sheds.

Cartons and boxes
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Custom packaging manufacturer operating a 90,000 square foot plant in Hartford, Connecticut, building corrugated, wood, and plastic box and pallet systems for aerospace and industrial manufacturing customers, tracing its origins to the 1920s Champlin family business.

Cartons and boxesPallets
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Custom corrugated packaging manufacturer based in Kansas City, Missouri, with over 45 years of experience serving industrial and commercial shipping-carton customers.

Cartons and boxesPallets
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Wholesale packaging supply distributor based in San Antonio, Texas, providing boxes, strapping and other shipping supplies to Central Texas businesses.

Cartons and boxesStrapping
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Corrugated packaging manufacturer supplying cartons, sheets and trays for citrus, tomatoes and other fresh produce, with a carton production plant in Ontario, California serving Southern growers and packers.

Cartons and boxes
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Corrugated box manufacturer operated by Green Bay Packaging with plants in Traverse City and Grand Rapids, Michigan, producing custom shipping cartons and display packaging for regional food and agriculture customers.

Cartons and boxes
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Corrugated box and packaging distribution center in San Antonio, Texas, part of Green Bay Packaging's national network supplying custom corrugated cartons to South Texas customers.

Cartons and boxes
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Produce packaging supplier established in 1979 serving Rio Grande Valley growers, packers and retailers with cartons, clamshells, wicketed bags and bins.

Cartons and boxesClamshells and punnets+1
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Distributor of custom corrugated and solid fiber boxes for produce and dry food packaging, based in Stockton, California and serving packing sheds throughout the San Joaquin Valley since 1924.

Cartons and boxes
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Paperboard packaging manufacturer founded in 1881 and headquartered at 1801 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, New York, producing custom folding cartons for consumer product manufacturers and stock packaging for the retail confectionery industry.

Cartons and boxes
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Produce container manufacturer since 1925 supplying wire-bound crates, corrugated masters, wet-service cartons, orchard bins and pallets, with a facility in Lakeland, Florida serving western Florida produce growers.

Cartons and boxesPallets
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Strapping technology manufacturer headquartered in Waldbrunn, Odenwald, building strapping machines and strapping bands at plants in Germany, Spain, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico and the United States for corrugated, food and beverage shipments.

Strapping
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Family-owned packaging supplier founded in 1982, operating two manufacturing facilities totaling 170,000 square feet in Buffalo, New York, producing corrugated boxes, crates and pallets, foam cushioning, and strapping and film supplies for the Northeast United States.

Cartons and boxesPallets+1
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Pallet manufacturing and recycling operation in Garden City, Kansas running computer monitored pallet sort, repair, assembly and dismantling lines serving the Southwest Kansas meatpacking and agricultural corridor.

Pallets
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Third-generation family-owned corrugated box supplier and packaging materials distributor based in the West Bottoms district of Kansas City, Missouri, providing stock and custom corrugated shipping boxes, stretch wrap, and packaging supplies since 1959.

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Supplier of new, recycled, and combo wooden pallets plus pallet repair, sorting, and heat-treating services, headquartered in Modesto, California and serving shippers across the Central Valley and Northern California.

Pallets
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Distributor of produce packaging supplies including corrugated and plastic cartons, clamshells, liners, bags, and labels, operating regional distribution centers in Salinas, Yuma, Santa Maria, and Oxnard for growers and packing sheds.

Cartons and boxesClamshells and punnets+2

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Common questions

How do packaging suppliers in the United States typically handle custom specifications?

Most packaging suppliers in the United States can work to a buyer-supplied specification, including material, dimensions, and labelling, though the ease of doing so depends on the provider's usual customer base. Providers used to export or brand-specific orders tend to accommodate custom artwork and sizing more readily than those geared toward standard, off-the-shelf formats, so it is worth confirming this upfront.

What should I check before choosing a packaging supplier in the United States?

Beyond price, it helps to confirm what documentation a packaging supplier in the United States can provide for the materials used, their typical lead time including any inland transport, minimum order quantities, and whether they can supply samples before a full production run. These details vary considerably between providers even within the same country.

Do packaging suppliers in the United States handle both retail and export packaging?

Some do, but many packaging suppliers in the United States specialise in one or the other, since the requirements differ: export packaging prioritises durability through transport, while retail packaging prioritises presentation and local compliance. It is worth asking directly which a given provider is set up for rather than assuming both are equally well covered.

How do I check whether a provider listed for the United States is actually reliable?

Look for a working address and contact details, and ask for references from businesses that have shipped through the United States recently rather than relying on a listing alone. Confirm the specific service you need, storage, freight forwarding, or customs handling, since a general logistics listing does not always mean deep capability in the one service that matters to your shipment. A provider willing to explain what happens when something goes wrong is a stronger signal than any credential.

Should I use a local provider in the United States or an international one with a presence there?

It depends on what matters more for your shipment. A local provider in the United States usually has deeper knowledge of ground conditions, relationships, and paperwork specific to that market, while an international provider offers a single point of contact and consistent processes if your goods also move through other countries. Many exporters combine the two: a local provider for physical handling in the United States, and a wider forwarder to manage the rest of the route.

What should I ask a provider in the United States before committing to work with them?

Ask what happens to your goods at each handover point, who is responsible if something is delayed or damaged, and what documentation they produce and when. Ask for a quote that breaks out individual charges rather than one bundled figure, so you can see what you are paying for at each stage. It is also worth asking directly how they have handled a shipment that ran into difficulty in the United States, since that answer tells you more than a general pitch.

Sourcing packaging suppliers across the Americas

Packaging suppliers across the Americas range from large integrated operations serving continental supply chains to smaller regional providers focused on a single material or a specific industry, such as agricultural exports or food service. In the United States, a buyer sourcing packaging typically deals with providers positioned either near major population centres, where demand is domestic and delivery cycles are short, or near agricultural and industrial production zones, where packaging is built around a narrower set of export-oriented formats such as bulk sacks, crates, or produce cartons. Road and rail networks, rather than short coastal shipping routes, tend to be the backbone of how packaging materials move within the region, which shapes typical lead times more than port proximity does in many other parts of the world.

What sets the Americas apart is the sheer range of scale within a single country and the influence of neighbouring markets on standards and expectations. A packaging supplier serving the United States may need to meet requirements shaped by a much larger trading partner nearby, even for goods that never cross that border, simply because equipment and material specifications have converged regionally over time. Distances between production regions can be long, so freight cost and transit time within the country are often as significant to total packaging cost as the unit price itself. Seasonal demand tied to agricultural harvests also shapes availability: packaging suppliers geared toward produce or grain exports may see capacity tighten sharply at harvest time, which is worth factoring into scheduling.

Supplier structure varies by sub-region as well. Some markets have a handful of established providers covering most standard formats, making sourcing relatively straightforward but leaving less room to negotiate on customisation. Others have a more fragmented base of smaller providers, which allows more flexibility on artwork, sizing, and trial runs but requires more direct coordination and quality oversight from the buyer. Payment terms, invoicing currency, and the degree of formality in contracting also vary considerably across the region, so it is worth establishing these details early with any packaging supplier in the United States rather than assuming a single regional norm applies.

Sourcing services in the United States

The United States is both one of the largest producers and consumers of food and agricultural goods in the world, and its service base reflects that scale on both the export and import sides. Grain, oilseeds, meat, dairy, fresh produce and processed foods move out through a wide network of ports on the Gulf, Atlantic, Pacific and Great Lakes coasts, each tied to different growing regions and different export corridors, while imports arrive through the same ports and through land crossings with Canada and Mexico that carry constant truck and rail traffic. Because the country is large and its production regions are spread out, inland logistics, moving goods from farm or plant to port, often matters as much as the ocean or air leg itself, and providers who specialise in inland trucking, rail drayage or barge movement on the river system are a distinct and important part of the picture.

Geography and scale also mean that no single provider or lane covers the whole country. An exporter shipping from the Midwest works with a different set of ports, carriers and inland logistics providers than one shipping from California or the Southeast, and the right choice of storage or freight provider depends heavily on where the goods originate relative to the coast or border they are moving through. Domestic distances are long enough that lead times for positioning goods at a port can be a bigger planning variable than the international transit itself. Food and agricultural exports and imports fall under a layered system of federal and state oversight, and providers who work in this space day to day are generally familiar with what documentation and inspection steps apply to a given commodity, which is one of the more useful things to look for when vetting a broker or forwarder new to a shipper.

What tends to matter most in choosing a provider here is specialisation by commodity and by corridor. A warehouse or cold store built around produce handling is not necessarily set up for bulk grain, and a customs broker experienced with meat and dairy exports is not automatically the right choice for packaged consumer goods. Ambient and dry storage capacity is as much a part of the landscape as refrigerated space, since a large share of what moves through the country is shelf-stable. References and a track record with the specific commodity and specific port or border crossing in question carry more weight than general size or brand recognition, because performance varies so much by region and by product.

A newcomer should expect a market that is highly capable but genuinely regional: providers, infrastructure and even documentation practices differ from coast to coast and between land border crossings, so the experience of shipping from one part of the country is not a reliable guide to another. The service base itself is deep, with providers across every category from storage and freight to inspection, testing and customs brokerage, but the work of a new exporter is largely about matching the provider to the specific origin, commodity and destination rather than finding a single national solution.

Comparing packaging suppliers in the United States

Fernable lists a broad set of packaging suppliers across the United States, which changes the nature of the task. The question is not whether a provider exists but which of many is the right fit, and that starts with matching substrate and format before anything else. A packaging supplier built around corrugated cartons and one built around flexible film, rigid plastics, or industrial drums are answering different briefs even when both sit under the same category heading. Start by narrowing to providers whose core material and format match what you actually need to pack, ship, or protect. Everything downstream of that, price, service, turnaround, is easier to judge once the field is reduced to providers who can genuinely do the job.

Once you have a materials-matched shortlist, the differences that actually separate one packaging supplier from another are operational rather than cosmetic. Minimum order quantities and whether a provider holds standard stock or produces to order will shape how you plan replenishment, particularly if your volumes vary through the year. Certifications matter where the packaging touches food, pharmaceuticals, or regulated goods, and so does the provider's ability to meet the specific requirements of your destination market: barrier properties, labelling or marking standards, and any export documentation tied to the packaging itself rather than the goods inside it. Consistency across production runs is worth probing directly, since a supplier that nails a sample but drifts on a repeat order creates problems further down the chain. By contrast, a polished catalogue, a large product range, or generic claims about quality tell you little on their own and should not carry weight in a comparison until backed by something checkable.

To compare without getting lost in options, work in stages rather than evaluating every listed provider on every dimension at once. Filter first on material, format, and any non-negotiable certification, which usually cuts the field substantially. From what remains, request samples or specification sheets and check them against your actual product, not a general description. Ask each shortlisted packaging supplier the same handful of operational questions, on lead time, MOQ, and how they handle a change in order size, so the answers are directly comparable rather than shaped by how each one chooses to present itself. Treat the comparison as elimination against your own requirements first and a price or service comparison second: a cheaper or faster provider that cannot hold your specification is not a genuine option, whatever the quote looks like.

Export snapshot

The main export gateways for the United States are Los Angeles and Savannah.

Leading food and agriculture export commodities for the United States include soybeans, corn, beef, dairy, tree nuts, and wheat.

The relevant regulator for this category in the United States is U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (regulates substances used in food-contact packaging materials as indirect).

FDA food-contact substance regulations shapes demand for this category in the United States.

Packaging suppliers in the United States are most visible in Miami, Long Beach, and Newark.