Posted on 04/26/2016 9:26:34 AM PDT by rickmichaels
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Chinese company Sun Paper announced plans Tuesday for a $1 billion bio-products mill in southern Arkansas, the paper company’s first facility in North America.
Sun Paper officials were joined by Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson to announce the project. Hutchinson said the project will create 250 jobs and is one of the largest private investments in Arkansas’ history.
Based in Shandong Province, Sun Paper employs 10,000 people worldwide and is China’s largest privately owned paper-making enterprise, according to the company’s website.
The new plant will built about 65 miles southwest of Little Rock in the city of Arkadelphia. An Arkansas economic development official said earlier this month that Sun Paper was also considering Mississippi for the mill.
“The fact Sun Paper is investing more than $1 billion in south Arkansas speaks volumes of their confidence in our workforce and pro-business environment,” Hutchinson said in a statement. “This is among the largest private investments in the state’s history and the impact will be felt for generations.”
Hutchinson, a Republican, travelled to China last November and met with Sun Paper officials. He signed a letter of intent then to study the feasibility of building the plant in Arkansas.
“Using OUR money!”
We gave it to them in exchange for products we wanted (or thought we wanted) more than things made here in the USA. We have only ourselves to “blame” if you think that’s the appropriate word.
So that’s why NIMBYs used their government incomes in so many local governments in rural areas to shut down small sawmills.
Of course those at the bottom will need to be happy with their rice bowls and bicycles.
Will the plant be run like the Apple plant in China with nets to stop suicides and no one smiling.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3557310/Inside-secretive-Chinese-iPhone-factory.html
In China if they do not meet their quota they are then assigned to the spare parts division. They become spare parts for other humans. Will this also happen in Alabama?
Publix - you lucky dog. In DC we have politically correct Safeways or Giant or Whole Foods. Use the last a lot, but not for what are supposed to be cheap bulk items.
“Publix - you lucky dog. In DC we have politically correct Safeways or Giant or Whole Foods”
I know your pain. I lived in the DC area for four years. Safeway was the worst. Publix is employee-owned so everyone working there has a direct interest in the success of the company.
This is one reason we need to keep energy prices low. Paper mills are water and power hogs. These can’t be run on windmill power.
“..I do and get paid very handsomely. Fly first class, stay in 5 star hotels. No requirement to use chop sticks...”
Your situation is rare. I did work for one, and it was horrible. They trusted NOBODY that was not Chinese, were cheap to an extreme, were rude, and ran a ruler/slave work environment, and lied to their employees. I did not last long there.
Now they can have all that US debt they own printed on their own paper. Synergy!
Quint: "Sometimes that tree, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a tree, he's got... lifeless knotholes, black knotholes, like a doll's knothole. When he falls at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he falls on ya and those black knotholes roll over white. And then, ah... then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the forest turns red and in spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces."
Brody: "You're gonna need a bigger windmill."
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