Hydro-Powered Packaging

To aid with its planned $6.5 million expansion of its Cheektowaga plant, Trinity Packaging Corp. will get a boost from New York Power Authority, which last week approved a low-cost hydropower allocation for the company.

The power allocation will be drawn from a block of hydropower, known as Replacement Power, from NYPA’s Niagara Power Project. It is one of two large portions of power from the plant—the other is called Expansion Power—that are linked to tens of thousands of Western New York jobs.