
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 22, 1990                   TAG: 9005220170
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: RURAL RETREAT                                LENGTH: Short

FUNDS FOR RAIL TRACK TO WYTHE PLANT OK'D

The Commonwealth Transportation Board has approved $200,000 in industrial access funds to build a railroad track to a Klockner-Pentaplast of America Inc. plant in this part of Wythe County.

The track, expected to be built this summer, will connect the German-based company's proposed plant with Norfolk Southern Railway tracks.

Work on the $16 million plant, announced on Oct. 27, 1988, is scheduled to start early this summer and be operational next spring. The plant will make rigid plastics for use in such items as credit cards, floppy computer disks and pharmaceutical packaging.

About 60 people are to be hired when the plant opens, with employment growing to 360 by 1999. The company looked at 50 sites in six states before settling on the one in the Rural Retreat Industrial Park. - Southwest bureau

by CNB