wiae, and will be from one to five stories high.
The du Pont Company is taking complete re
sponsibility for the designing, engineering and
construction of the plant, including the erection
and installation of all machinery and equipment.
They will turn the completed plant over to
Ecusta as a finished unit ready for operation and
production.
Engineers in charge of construction estimate
that the plant will be completed by the spring of
1951, with machinery scheduled for installation
soon afterwards.
At the peak of construction about 800 to 850
workers will be employed by du Pont. Some of
the construction workers will be highly skilled
and specialized artisans not normally available
in many sections of the country.
Ecusta expects to produce 30,000,000 to 35,-
000,000 pounds of Olin Cellophane annually at
the new plant.
Actual operation of the completed plant is ex
pected to require the employment of about 450
persons, and Transylvania and environs are con
sidered a source of this labor force.
Ecusta will, of course, continue the manufacture
of the world’s finest cigarette paper in line with
our previously established policies, and the new
cellophane manufacturing operations will simply
add a new and important item to the list of our
products. Actually the completion of the cello
phane plant will mark the entrance of Ecusta into
a broad new field—the vast packaging business.
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