Tissue Maker Plans to Invest $1 Billion in South Carolina

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--First Quality Tissue LLP, a business unit of privately held First Quality Enterprises (Great Neck, New York), plans to begin site construction this summer for a tissue-manufacturing complex in Anderson, South Carolina. First Quality settled on 572-acre site along Masters Boulevard that previously was occupied by Shaw Industries. It includes buildings with more than 1 million square feet of space.

The company's immediate plans do not include using the building or demolition thereof, but rather to build from the ground up. First Quality's selection of Anderson is pivotal and opens the company to markets in the Southeastern region of the U.S. The mill will be able to produce approximately 70,000 tons per year of tissue from one paper machine and would double with the addition of a second machine.

Initial plans call for the construction of a paper mill complex that will include a thru-air-dried (tad) tissue machine, and four converting lines to produce a variety of tissue and towel products. A second paper machine is slated to be brought online a year after the first line becomes operational.

First Quality will begin site excavation in the coming weeks and proceed with major construction upon receipt of an air permit, which is expected in the next 60 to 90 days. The company will act as the general contractor and provide construction management, while subcontracting all phases of construction and equipment installation. Jacobs Engineering Group Incorporated (Greenville, South Carolina) provided engineering services to First Quality on a similar project in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; however, the company will not confirm using Jacobs or the firms providing services to the Anderson project.

First Quality has pledged a minimum $500 million investment by the end of 2015, with possibly more than double that investment by 2020.

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