ClallamCounty OKs $85000 loan for PenPly; future holds jobs
25.11.09
Mooring ANGELES -- Clallam County approved an $85,000 grant from its Opportunity Fund for the Mooring of Port Angeles to upgrade the publicly-owned facilities at Peninsula Plywood in Port Angeles.
It is unrevealed when the mill at 439 W. Marine Drive will begin hiring millworkers. Six managers are already in place. PenPly is bound by its contract to hire 60 people before the end of the year.
"We appreciate that the county and the port got together to get creative about ways to keep from this effort to create these jobs," PenPly president and general manager Josh Renshaw said on Tuesday.
PenPly will lease the mill complex from the haven, which owns the 19-acre site.
The property is the former location of the KPly mill. Prior owner Klukwan Inc., of Alaska closed the KPly mill in November 2007.
The new mill is expected to devise as many as 175 jobs for the community.
After a meeting with Port of Port Angeles and PenPly officials, the Break Fund Advisory
Source: Peninsula Daily