by MBJ Staff Published: June 25,2012
Tags: agriculture, expand, expansion, facility, forest, forestry, lumber, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, plant, stimulus, timber
CORINTH — Timber Products Company, manufacturer of various wood products, is expanding operations at its hardwood plywood facility in Corinth by adding a clear ultraviolet plywood finishing process at the plant. The project represents a company investment of $350,000 and will create up to four new jobs and help retain the company’s 50 current employees, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 16,2011
Tags: environment, federal government, fish, habitat, lumber, mill, pullutants, sawmills. pollution, timber, trees, wildlife
PEARL RIVER — Temple-Inland Inc. faces a federal criminal investigation over an August spill that killed thousands of fish in the Pearl River south of its Bogalusa, La., paper mill. A Mississippi official said environmental regulators from Mississippi and Louisiana have spoken repeatedly to federal investigators about the August incident, which left 500,000 dead fish [...] [...]
BOGALUSA, La. — Major, expensive improvements to the Bogalusa paper mill responsible for a massive August fish kill in the Pearl River will begin at the end of the year. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality released a timeline last week detailing when the Temple-Inland mill must begin and complete construction of new infrastructure designed [...] [...]
BROOKHAVEN — Reed’s Metals has received the last shipment of equipment for its new purlins mill. Getting the 65,000-pound component for Reed’s Metals’ new purlins mill would be no easy task. A coordinated effort involving four wrecker service trucks’ tow cable systems was needed to get the heavy equipment lowered from the delivery truck to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 10,2011
Tags: agriculture, forestry, forests, manufacturing, mill, municipal government, plant, real estate, sawmill, trees
GLOSTER — Gloster Mayor Billy Johnson says his city will take back the old Georgia-Pacific plywood plant once workers finish cutting up and removing scrap metal. The mill closed in 2002, leaving 300 people without jobs. It reopened in 2005 and closed again in 2009, this time for good. Johnson tells the Enterprise-Journal the town [...] [...]
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