Italian Paper Company Breaks Ground On New Plant In Inola

As News On 6 told you in February, an Italian tissue paper manufacturer is investing more than $350 million to build a new plant in northeastern Oklahoma that it says will support 300 area jobs.

Sofidel Group publicly announced the plan Friday as it broke ground on the project in Inola, a town of 1,900 people located about 30 miles east of Tulsa.

The 1.8-million-square-foot plant is expected to be online by 2020 and will be able to produce 120,000 tons of tissue paper annually. Hundreds of jobs are expected to be created in the Rogers County area.

2/14/2018 Related Story: Paper Factory Coming To Site Of Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant Near Inola

Luigi Lazzareschi, the CEO of Sofidel Group, says the plant will serve the south-central and central-western U.S., where it has been operating since 2012.

The new plant will be built on the site of the abandoned Black Fox nuclear plant and the new operation will bring in hundreds of jobs.

Sofidel already has a large warehouse in Catoosa that’s part of the company’s expanding American footprint.  The company has more than 6,000 employees and subsidiaries in 13 countries.