Poly Craft opens Middletown campus, adds jobs, boosts industrial growth

Poly Craft Industries has turned a 6.4-acre site on Industrial Place into a larger manufacturing base for Middletown, adding a concrete sign of how Orange County is still competing for industrial growth. The company completed a 72,000-square-foot plant next to its existing 30,000-square-foot office building, creating a new central hub for manufacturing and distribution in the city.

The project matters locally because it brought jobs with it. Poly Craft added 54 workers from Orange County on top of more than 50 employees who moved with the business from Hauppauge on Long Island, blending new hiring with experienced staff already trained in the company’s operations. State records said the relocation was intended to satisfy demand for Poly Craft’s products, while also expanding the company’s capacity for environmentally conscious packaging.

The new Middletown site is a flexographic printing facility with four Uteco presses that apply solvent-based inks to plastic bags and industrial packaging applications. That level of equipment helps explain why local and state officials treated the move as more than a routine warehouse expansion. New York’s Regional Economic Development Council records show the project received a $500,000 award, support that helped back a state-of-the-art facility described as twice the size of Poly Craft’s prior footprint.

Orange County Partnership President Conor Eckert said the development was a major boost for the county economy and a sign that Orange County can compete for advanced manufacturing investment at scale. Middletown Mayor Joseph DeStefano called it the kind of strategic investment that strengthens the local economy. Eckert also said the facility was already attracting related industries to the Hudson Valley, an indication that one plant can influence a broader industrial corridor.

The Middletown Industrial Development Agency had earlier said the project at 36-60 Industrial Place would create construction jobs and at least 85 full-time-equivalent jobs initially. Orange County Partnership said Poly Craft received final approval from the Middletown Planning Board, underscoring how city, county and state agencies helped push the project forward in one of Middletown’s key industrial corridors.

The company had planned a ribbon-cutting for May 12, 2026, but the bigger story is already visible along Industrial Place: a new plant, more than 100 workers tied to the move, and a manufacturing footprint that is now deeper in Orange County for the long haul.