Clearly Clean, recyclable food-packaging company, confirmed as coming to Greensboro, N.C., with 80 jobs

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The Pennsylvania-based maker of recyclable-plastic food trays for the meat and produce industries known as Clearly Clean is coming to Greensboro with plans to hire about 80 people and invest nearly $25 million in a manufacturing facility, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday.

The state was involved through a $200,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund dependent on the company’s investing $24.9 million. The company, like others receiving grants from the fund, get no money up front and must meet targets regarding job creation and capital investment.

The grants require matching participation from local governments; both Greensboro City Council and the Guilford County Board of Commissioners are to consider local incentive packages, worth up to $344,171 and $373,855, respectively, this week. The city’s incentives expire if the jobs and investment aren’t made by the end of 2028, and the company stands to get $250 per job for any employee who lives in a defined impact zone or who is hired through NCWorks Career Centers.

Triad Business Journal

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BENTELER Announces $21 Million Expansion in Northwest Louisiana, to Create 49 Direct New Jobs

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SHREVEPORT, La. – BENTELER Steel/Tube Manufacturing Corporation, a leading global specialist in metal processing, announced it is expanding its presence at the Port of Caddo-Bossier with the construction of a new threading facility for hot rolled seamless steel tubes. The $21 million investment will allow the company to streamline supply chains for customers in the oil and gas, energy and engineering sectors.

The company expects to create 49 direct new jobs while retaining 347 current positions at its Louisiana operations. Louisiana Economic Development estimates the project will result in 96 indirect new jobs, for a total of 145 potential new jobs in the Northwest Region.

“Economic development projects like this don’t only benefit the state’s economy through investment and job creation, but also by providing support to key industries in our state,” LED Secretary Susan B. Bourgeois said. “I thank BENTELER for seeing and utilizing Louisiana’s unique business advantages, like our port system and skilled manufacturing workforce, and reaffirming its commitment to our state and our people.”

The company plans to partner with leading connection specialists GB Connections and Hunting to provide customers in the oil and gas industry with domestically designed, melted, made and finished seamless products.

Louisiana Economic Development

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100 new jobs coming to St. Tammany, La. as $46M cold storage facility construction starts

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Construction has begun on a massive, $46 million cold storage facility in Pearl River that promises 100 new jobs.

Elected leaders and St. Tammany Parish economic development officials are expected to gather at the groundbreaking Tuesday morning for the new Agile Cold Storage building on 10 acres near a nest of other large distribution facilities just off Interstate 59.

Based in Gainesville, Georgia, Agile blast-freezes and packs food for shipping. The Pearl River facility will be busy: The company expects to send about 100 containers of food shipments from the new facility to the Port of New Orleans for export every week, officials said when announcing the project this spring.

NOLA.com

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