Robinsonville, MS—
FAST FACTS:
- Schulz breaks ground in Tunica
- First in the world to manufacture high tech steel pipe for oil and gas industry
- Slated to employ 5-hundred by December
dennis.turner@wreg.com
(Robinsonville, MS 3/10/2010) A new manufacturing plant in Tunica County will soon bring hundreds of new jobs in a hurry.
Dignitaries from all over the state came for today's groundbreaking for a first of its kind high-tech plant.
As many as 5 hundred jobs are headed to Tunica with the groundbreaking for a new steel pipe plant to supply the oil and gas industry.
Mississippi competed with countries, like Abu Dabi, Brazil and China, and in this country, with Georgia, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
Mississippi won, and Tunica won over the other counties in the state.
The turning of the dirt marked an important event in Mississippi.
Not only had the state added a new high-tech plant to its roster, it comes during a recession, and in Tunica County which has worked hard to bring in a more diverse base of jobs.
"We have increasingly brought in industries like aerospace and automotive and also advanced materials," said Governor Haley Barbour
In the last several years, Mississippi has lured General Electric to build aircraft engines, Nissan and Toyota to build high-tech cars, and now, what will soon be a high tech pipe plant to build conduits for oil and natural gas around the world.
This plant to be built here is the first of its kind anywhere in the world. "We will not only have technology second to none, but we will have and produce material in combinations which have never been produced before," said Wolfgang Schulz of the Schulz Company.
The plant has an ambitious timetable. Construction is set to start right away, with completion expected, and 5-hundred people on the job, by the end of this year.
Why the hurry? Schulz already has orders to fill for its new products, and needs to get these new pipes out for customers as soon as possible.
