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LOUISIANA SPOTLIGHT


Louisiana Project Watch
  • Plastipak Packaging is completing construction of a 500,000-sq.-ft. (46,450-sq.-m.) facility in Pineville that will supply Procter & Gamble's Fabric and Home Care Division with containers for such detergent brands as Tide and Cheer. The $45-million facility, on a 62-acre (25-hectare) site, will generate more than 100 new jobs.
         
  • Dow Chemical's UCAR Emulsion Systems business unit is building a new production plant at the company's Union Carbide site in St. Charles and is expanding operations in Illinois and Ontario. Overall, the unit is investing more than $100 million on the combined expansions, with the St. Charles project being the most significant. Facilities in Georgia and Texas are slated for closure by 2006.
         
  • ExxonMobil Chemical has commenced operations at its new commercial metallocene ethylene elastomer manufacturing facility in Baton Rouge, which will add capacity of more than 90,000 tons of product annually.
         
  • Abita Springs Water Co. is constructing a new, 112,000-sq.-ft. (10,400-sq.-m.) bottling and distribution facility in St. Tammany Parish. The facility will use a 1,000-ft. (304-m.) artesian well to access water directly from the Abita Aquifer.
         
  • A $20-million food-processing plant, which is estimated to have a regional economic impact of $10 million, is under development for the Peter Stormquist Companies in Bogalusa. More than 200 jobs will be created in the first year of operation.

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