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

DATE: SATURDAY, February 2, 1991                   TAG: 9102020224
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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SEWELL TO BUILD PLASTIC BOTTLE PLANT

Sewell Products Inc., a new West Salem company, is building its own plastic bottle plant in a $900,000 expansion. Sewell, a successor to the former Purex Manufacturing Corp., makes bleach, ammonia and fabric softener for laundering.

The company said Friday it is adding an 18,000-square-foot building. When completed in June, the plastic bottle plant will have eight new employees who will work three shifts, five days a week, said Steve Sewell, the owner. The bleach products operation has a work force of 13 at a plant of 38,000 square feet.

Sewell said the products are sold to Food Lion and Kroger supermarket chains and to the Richfood grocery wholesaler. The plant closed in December 1988 and Sewell bought the property in April 1989. He had sold Salem Concrete Products to Concrete Pipe & Products Co. of Richmond.

The plant is being built by Sewell's commercial construction business, S.H. Sewell & Co. The contractor also is working on an office building in Lexington and an addition of a wing for Snyder Nursing Home in Salem.

- Staff report

by CNB