A report from WAPT, Jackson, Miss., USA, earlier this week said that von Drehle Corp., Hickory, N.C., has broken ground on a new facility to house a New Valmet NTT tissue machine at Natchez, Miss. Von Drehle acquired the former Mississippi River Pulp facility in 2013. The project represents an estimated $100 million incorporate investment and will create at least 100 jobs, with the potential to increase to 150 when completed.

 

Von Drehle President and CEO Randy Bergman said the machine being installed in the new facility is capable of producing 30,000 tpy.

 

The Mississippi Development Authority provided $500,000 for the construction of an access road to the new facility. Adams County provided assistance in the form of tax abatements.

 

Established in 1974, von Drehle maintains production operations in North Carolina, Nevada, and Tennessee. The company sells tissue products to industrial and commercial customers.