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County Industrial District number one, Northeast o£ Gulfport on the industrial channel for the purpose of manufacturing creativebuildingproducts. The factory is planned as a 220, 000 square foot building plus several spacious dry kilns.
In addition, they have taken option to purchase an adjoining 26 acres of kind for expansion. The plant is scheduled to employ some 250 people when completed, but projections indicate a work force of much larger dimensions. At present the firm employs 900 people at its Dubuque facility in an area considerably smaller in size.
To date, two chemical firms havebcen granted options to purchase acreage in the Pass Christian industrial district contingent upon either of the firms being awarded a contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to supply liquid hydrogen to the Mississippi Test Facility. The two firms, The National Cylinders Gas Division of Chemetron Corporation of Chicago, Illinois, and First Chemical Corporation of Jackson, Mississippi, are in competition with each other and the awarding of the contract to one-would nullify the other. The industries, if either locates on the Pass Christian site, would ship liquid hydrogen by water-borne traffic to the test facility.
An additional 74 companies, many engaged in space work or allied fields, have made inquiries regarding space in the project.
Across the bay, close to the Michoud plant, there is extensive industrial development going on also. Union Carbide announced plans to build a liquid oxygen-nitrogen plant on a 110 acre site between New Orleans and Pass Christian.
Oklahoma Cement plans a ?12, 000, 000 plant between New Orleans and Pass Christian also. And DuPont has plans to build a ?25, 000, 000 chemical plant east of Nev.’ Orleans.
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