Pulp, Paper, and Wood Industry on Track to Surpass 2004 Expenditures in the Southwest Market Region

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). In 2005, the Southwest market region, which is comprised of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana, is set to lead all U.S. market regions in terms of capital and maintenance spending among paper and wood companies. Only two months into 2005, planned expenditures for the region for plants that will start construction this year are already more than half of last year's $946 million recorded for projects that started construction in 2004. Industrialinfo.com has identified thirty projects worth $646 million that are scheduled to start construction in 2005. Of those projects, twenty-one projects, with a combined total investment value (TIV) of $628 million, are considered capital, and nine are maintenance-related projects totaling $18 million. The TIV of the projects range in value from $1 million to $185 million.

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Louisiana ranks first among all states of the region, with fourteen projects worth $435 million. Oklahoma comes in at a distant second place, with combined expenditures worth $126 million from four projects, followed by Texas with $62 million covering five projects, and lastly, Arkansas, trailing with seven projects valued at $23 million.

Expenditures at pulp and paper manufacturing mills tally up to $390 million from twenty-one projects. Planned spending among mills that manufacture wood products including lumber, plywood, particleboard, medium density fiberboard (MDF) and oriented strand board (OSB), is showing $256 million, across nine projects.

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