Posted on 06/20/2017 12:38:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Will require 2,000 construction workers for two year project build
The Arkadelphia Regional Economic Development Alliance and Area Chamber of Commerce announced the planned $1 billion pulp mill to be located in southwest Arkansas is now in the pre-engineering stage with construction set to begin in March 2018.
The plant, operated by Sun Bio Material Company, is expected to consumer 10K tons of southern pine chips a day with the end product eventually shipped and sold to makers of rayon clothing. Sun Bio is part of the giant Chinese firm Shandong Sun International Paper Company. Sun Paper Chairman and Founder Hongxin Li said the south Arkansas mega-project will create 250 new jobs at an average salary of $52,000 a year.
Stephen Bell, president of the Arakdelphia Regional Economic Development Alliance, said he expects the required air quality permit to be issued this September after which construction can begin.
Gee, just how many soft wood, short needle pine trees are in that particular neck of the woods? Let’s hope for a lot.
There is and it grows back.
Sounds like competition for the big mill in Pine Bluff.
Large scale vegetable farming and processing. The econo-loop of local businesses involved is going to grow year after year, right down to tree planting companies hired by the pulp mills, that can be staffed by Foresters that know all about all about ReForestation, instead of enviro-flakes, that just want everything to shut down.
Arkansas is sooooo beautiful. Miss the Ozarks, but too far from family to move back.
North and north central Arkansas is quite hilly. Big bridges span some of the hills but many highways seem to be straight up and down.
I called on the Pine Bluff paper mill when International Paper owned it. For many years, the mill made 95 percent of the world’s waxed milk carton paper. It was a coal burner when first built. I shipped heavy fuel oil to the mill in tank cars...
Oh yeah? I’d like to know your source. I’m in the proposed mill’s backyard - literally. Trying to start non-traditional farming, etc., and can’t even get the sweat off Clark County’s power elite’s backside for my trouble. Like most fake “economic development” efforts, this one has to be strictly imported from anywhere else, as long as it buries the efforts of locals to bring free-market growth.
BTW, I do NOT like our governor, the Wizard of Oz. He is a big government nanny-stater that makes Huckabee look like Reagan. Asa is trying to turn Arkansas into California - Jerry Brown’s Kalifornia, that is.
“Jobs” will soon be a four-letter word around here. Then they’ll have to accompany Hutchinson’s speeches with a warning about obscene language because that’s the only word in his vocabulary.
I remember Bobby Goodson from a tv show called Swamp Loggers who criticized obama about the economy. His show was canceled in late 2011.
http://goodsonsallterrainlogginginc.com/swamp-loggers/
Are you a real hippie, born before 1957, or a long haired wannabe?
Not a hippie nor a long-hair, just tired of higher taxes to attract businesses that couldn’t make it without government subsidies.
I remember when conservatives actually favored smaller government, not corporate welfare. I do not like economic development corporations at all, having spent many years as a consultant to them and finally realizing that they are just there to line the pockets of a select few - and the taxpayers have no real say about it at all.
BTW, I spent my childhood quoting Human Events to my teachers and classmates and went door-to-door for Reagan in Texas in 1976 when Reagan wasn’t cool.
So are you a genuine Republican, or a RINO like most of our Arkansas legislature?
Lots of it. We have 2000 acres in Hollywood, AR. Pine trees grow like weeds. Timber yields 7% return on harvest years...better than most dividends and tax free bonds.
Not a Republican(except by registration) or a RINO. Just Conservative from Upper Michigan. Another economically jerked around logging area. Now I’m a retired plumbing engineer in NC.
I’m one of the 1957 crowd, who never had to register for the draft. Watergate took up most of my history and social study classes through high school. My parents voted for Nixon, and stuck with him until the tapes exposed him cussing up a storm while plotting the cover up. I think it had more to do with the cussing... I also think we dodged the bullet by not electing Humphrey. I always liked Reagan. His departing monologues on Death Valley Days had a lasting effect on me as a kid. Common sense and goodwill always provide the best options for a solution.
If you picked where your at to get away from it all, having a pulp mill in your back yard will suck and probably stink too.
Interesting background. We seem to see things alike.
The officials tell us that the paper mill won’t smell bad. I can only hope. It’s such a pretty area. It will be an economic shot-in-the-arm. My son-in-law is among those who will benefit directly. I just hope it doesn’t turn into Dallas, which used to be a pretty decent city until it got put on steroids.
Yes, Humphrey was far too close for comfort - a bleeding heart if there ever was one. I remember how the press had it in for President Nixon. It still makes me mad. He was kind of a big government guy, but I think he got railroaded. His language in the Oval Office was disappointing. I guess that’s why I voted for Carson in the Primary. I hoped for a president who was a better man than I am. Glad to see Trump standing up. He is amazing.
You live in a beautiful state. Enjoy it, friend.
Hope things work out for you there and your farm succeeds. One of the things my dad never liked about Nixon was his farm policy of “Get big or get out”. The government loans to farmers to buy huge equipment was the end of the family farm. Good visit!
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