Chinese to build $1.36 billion pulp mill in South Arkansas; incentives not yet known

[LiberalArkie]

A Chinese paper company, Shan Dong Sun Paper,says it will build a mill in Arkansas to process pulp wood into material for diapers and other sanitary products.

Reuters said the $1.36 billion facility would begin with construction in 2016, with completion by 2018.

The announcement came at a ceremony Friday attended by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who's been on a trade mission to China, and Obama administration commerce officials. The FDA has approved a production plan at the proposed mill.

The project has been under study since at least 2012. Gov. Mike Beebe went to China that year and state development officials later said they were compiling information for Shan Dong Sun Paper to build a plant in the vicinity of Camden or Arkadelphia. In early 2013, news articles about the possibility said such a plant could create 350 jobs.

Snip

http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/11/23/a-136-billion-beebe-era-paper-mill-plan-resurfaces-incentives-not-yet-known

[WhiteTara]

1. There goes our forests. nt

[packman]

2. Jesus - does anything (except Repuke politics) stink worse

than a paper mill? I can remember going past one on the way to Penn State way back in the early late 60's and the smell was unbelievable.
Pray they are going to have some scrubbers on those factory chimneys.

[LiberalArkie]

3. In El dorado we got the wind from Georgia Pacific in Crosset on day

and the wind from International Paper in Camden the other days.

IP shut down rather that meet new air standards. So maybe this being a new plant it will be cleaner.

[matt819]

4. Wanna bet no taxes?

Socialism at work.

Well, sort of.

Profits privatized.

Environmental impact socialized.

Minimum wages.