July 22, 2015

Orion is Ready to Break Ground for Collierville Facility


– The Commercial Appeal –

Orion Packaging Systems Inc., a company that sells, distributes and services machines that stretch plastic to wrap a variety of goods shipped on pallets, is going to build a facility in Collierville.

The company will break ground at 10 a.m. Thursday on a new facility I Collierville. Completion of the building is expected in February 2000, said Mack Greene, president.

Orion has 20 employees in Memphis and six salesmen around the nation. It expects to add four to 10 additional jobs in Memphis over the next two or three years, Greene said.

It will house Orion’s sales headquarters, spare parts inventory and technical service, customer service and accounting departments. It also will have warehouse space for Orion’s Memphis stock machine program, sales and service training facilities and a showroom.