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New Tulsa, Okla., Alcan packaging plant serves 'meat corridor' in Midwest.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004
By Tom Droege, Tulsa World, Okla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 19--A million plastic bags a week are produced by the $16 million Alcan Packaging operation that opened this year at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa.
"This is just the beginning," said plant manager Luis Bogran, walking through a warehouse filled with rolls of the clear plastic.
Alcan officials plan to spend an additional $10 million on equipment to expand the number of production lines from two to 12, drastically increasing the amount of plastic bags made at the facility.
The bags, which begin as poly resin pellets, are sold to beef packers across the country's "meat corridor" that stretches from Texas to Montana.
"It's not a very glamorous...
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