West Sanitation Services Announces Headquarters and Manufacturing Plant Relocation to Louisiana
A manufacturer and distributor of odor control products for commercial and institutional restrooms, West Sanitation will consolidate operations in a Beaumont Drive industrial building near Airline Highway in Baton Rouge. The company’s jobs will average more than $38,000 per year, plus benefits. Read more.
Houston Plating & Coatings Announces $9 Million Investment in Scott
HP&C will invest more than $9 million in building an 80,000-square-foot facility in Scott. The plant will be operated by Louisiana Plating & Coatings, a wholly owned division of HP&C, and will create 120 new direct jobs over the next five years. The Houston-based company expects to complete the facility in June and initially will hire 35 workers, increasing to 50 in the second year and eventually 120. Read more.
JELD-WEN to Restart Construction of $120 Million Manufacturing Facility in Winn Parish
JELD-WEN Inc., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of windows and doors, will open a $120 million Winn Parish production facility by the end of 2012. The company plans to create a minimum of 75 new direct jobs, with an annual payroll exceeding $2.5 million, and Louisiana Economic Development estimates the project will result in an additional 117 new indirect jobs. Read more.
Methanex Selects Louisiana For Potential Methanol Production Facility
Ascension Parish has been selected by Canada-based Methanex Corp. as the site for a potential methanol production facility in Louisiana. The project would entail relocating one of the company’s idle methanol plants from Chile to Louisiana and would create significant job opportunities at a 200-acre site secured by the company in Geismar. Methanex expects to make a final investment decision in the third quarter this year, and the plant could begin operating in the second half of 2014. Read more.