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Article: Newsclips.(Briefs)(plastics industry news brief)
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- Plastics News
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- December 9, 2002
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Rubbermaid adding 200 Tenn. jobs
MARYVILLE, TENN. - Newell Rubbermaid Inc. is expanding its Maryville plant and boosting employment at the 400-person facility by 50 percent.
The firm's Wooster, Ohio-based Rubbermaid Home Products division will invest $38 million for upgrades and to add production machinery. Spokeswoman Keri Butler said the operation mainly does injection molding but she did not provide details of what machinery will be added.
Newell Co. acquired the Maryville operation in 1997 when it was part of Rubbermaid Inc.'s Office Products business. Newell and Rubbermaid merged later, in 1999.
Now the Maryville operation is ...