MACON, Ga, — A Canadian firm introduced Thursday that it’s going to spend $600 million to broaden its tissue paper mill in Georgia, hiring 100 extra staff.
Irving Tissue stated it must broaden in Macon as a result of the mill is at present promoting all the bathtub tissue and paper towels it may make. The privately held agency will add a 3rd paper machine, rising output by 50%.
“We’ve had large success in Macon and with the plant at present offered out, that is the suitable plant for the growth.” Marc Doucette, Irving’s vice chairman of communications, wrote in an e-mail.
The corporate, which at present has 400 staff, introduced the plan Thursday because it celebrated the fifth anniversary of the mill, which makes private-label merchandise for retailers.
The growth may even embody an automatic warehouse and new changing traces to show the tissue into completed tasks. Firm President Robert Ok. Irving stated the pulp to produce the extra paper machine would come from Irving’s pulp mill in Saint John, New Brunswick, with wooden equipped from timberland the corporate owns in New Brunswick and Maine.
The warehouse is scheduled to be full in 2026, and the brand new paper machine is scheduled to be full in 2027, Doucette stated.
The manufacturing facility was initially constructed with one paper machine, however added a second machine on the time it opened in 2019.
The Macon plant at present produces 165,000 tons of tissue per yr. As soon as the addition is full, the plant will make 248,000 tons .
Employees on the plant make from $22 an hour to greater than $30 an hour, Doucette stated. That works out to a wage vary of $45,760 a yr to greater than $62,400 a yr.
Irving may qualify for $2 million in state earnings tax credit, at $4,000 per job over 5 years, so long as staff earn a minimum of $35,600 a yr. Macon-Bibb County may additionally grant property tax breaks on Irving’s tools and property. Doucette stated the corporate is in talks about tax abatements and different doable incentives.
Irving Tissue is predicated in Dieppe, New Brunswick and is a part of a family-owned industrial conglomerate that additionally consists of an oil firm, railroads, media and shipyards
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