by Associated Press Published: May 13,2013
Tags: agriculture, economic developments, employee, employer, employment, forest, forester, forestry, job, job creation, lumber, mill, plywood, timber, tre, wood, work, worker
LOUISVILLE — Natron Wood Products will locate a plywood mill in Louisville, creating more than 200 new jobs. Natron Wood Products owner Richard McDougal says the operations will be located in a 265,000-square-foot existing facility and represent a company investment of $10 million. The plant’s plywood overlay panels are used primarily in large vertical and [...] [...]
COLUMBUS — Severstal will invest $1.3 billion in its steel and mining operations worldwide with $43 million set aside for its rolled steel mill in Columbus. The company says in a news release that while it will spend most of its investments in 2013 on its Russian operations, $107 million will be invested in the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 8,2013
Tags: bench, contaminater, court, ecosystem, environment, fasctory, fish, guilty, justice, kill, law, legal, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, paper mill, plant, plea, pollution, wildlife
PEARL RIVER — A company that owned a Bogalusa paper mill has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an August 2011 spill of pulp byproducts into the Pearl River that killed more than 500,000 fish. Austin, Texas-based Temple Inland faces a maximum fine of $200,000 for its guilty plea to violating the Clean Water Act. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 16,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, board of supervisors, bond, county government, default, elected official, finance, financial institution, health care, hispital, home, homeowner, homestead exemption, house, mill, millage, public official, residence, resident, supervisor, tax, taxpayer
NATCHEZ — Natchez Regional Medical Center wants to take Adams County’s taxpayers off the hook as cosigners for its revenue bond. The Natchez Democrat reports the Mississippi Development Bank in 2006 required the hospital to show collateral before it would reissue the revenue bond. Adams County pledged a 5-mill standby tax that would not be [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 3,2013
Tags: acquisition, buy, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, merger, mill, packaging, paper, purchase, sale, sell
PICKENS — Burrows Paper Corporation completed the acquisition of the remaining 75 percent equity interest in Innopak Hong Kong Limited (the investment company that owns 100 percent of Innopak Heshan) from Innopak Holdings Limited. Until recently, Burrows was a 25 percent stakeholder in this joint venture packaging company. Innopak Heshan is a converter of specialty [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 27,2012
Tags: contaminate, contamination, court, crime, death, ecosystem, environment, federal government, fish, justice, kill, law, legal, mill, mortality, paper, plant, pollutant, pollution, pulp, wildlife
PEARL RIVER — The Justice Department has filed two criminal misdemeanor charges against Temple-Inland, the former owner of a paper mill in Bogalusa, La., for violating federal environmental laws. The charges stem from a five-day spill of pollutants from the company’s paper plant into the Pearl River in August 2011. A bill of information filed [...] [...]
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University has chosen a new contractor to preserve a former cotton mill as part of a commercial development. The College Board voted to sell 1.1 acres near what MSU calls the Cooley Building to developer Mark Castleberry for $460,000. The Starkville structure was built in 1902 as the Stone Cotton Mill [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 5,2012
Tags: amphibian, contamination, ecosystem, environment, figh, fish kill, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, pollution, restock, settlement, spill, wildlife
PEARL RIVER — After a three-hour journey in a truck-mounted fish tank, thousands of young bluegills were released into the West Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish, La., last week. In small batches, state wildlife officials released 200,000 bluegills — raised at a state hatchery in Alexandria, La., — into the river near Interstate 59 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 26,2012
Tags: complex, death, explode, explosion, facility, fatality, hurt, injury, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, plant, workplace safety
REDWOOD — A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit brought by a man who was injured in a deadly explosion at an International Paper Co. mill in Mississippi in 2008. Jeb D. Slade settled his lawsuit after a hearing yesterday in U.S. District Court in Natchez. The terms of the deal were not [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 25,2012
Tags: close, closure, employee, facility, job, joblessness, layoff, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, operations, paper, plant, recycle, recycler, recycling, shut down, shutter, unemployment, work, worker
NATCHEZ — A Natchez plant will shut down operations at its plant near the Natchez-Adams County Port. The Natchez Democrat reports Mississippi River Pulp (formerly Mississippi River Corporation) will close down its recycled fiber mill effective Oct. 31. The closure, which company officials said is due to lack of demand, will affect 79 hourly and [...] [...]
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