GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Three months after the facility opened, Green Bay Packaging held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new mill Thursday.
The $500 million mill opened in March after more than two and a half years of construction.
With a number one rank in the nation for number of paper mills, Wisconsin’s paper industry has significant economic impacts.
“The paper industry’s total contributions to Wisconsin economy, including direct, indirect, and induced benefits is more than $29 billion dollars and more than 95,000 jobs,” Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation secretary and CEO Missy Hughes said.
Green Bay Packaging vice president of mill operations Matt Szymanski says more than three million labor hours were put into it.
“A lot of folks did a lot of hard work, made a lot of sacrifice to make this happen,” said Szymanski. “So in the end, what we have here now is truly a world-class, environmentally-sustainable paper-making facility. One that I would tell you rivals anything in the world,”
Company officials have said there were as many as 1,200 people working on the construction site at one time.
At the groundbreaking, the company said the new mill would preserve 1,100 jobs, with another 200 more possibly to be added.
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