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From Paperboard To Green Jobs, Mill Gets Makeover
An Illinois investment company that bought an old container manufacturer west of Missoula is hoping to turn the 3,200-acre site along the Clark Fork River into a magnet for green jobs.
Green Investment Group Inc. has hired about 30 people including former employees to staff the old Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. site in Frenchtown to shape up the facility for prospective tenants.
Green has purchased seven Smurfit-Stone sites in the U.S. and Canada, all with an eye on redeveloping them.
Tom Dauenhauer, a former Smurfit employee who is Green's Frenchtown site manager, says one of the first symbolic acts new employees did was remove hundreds of hardhats hanging along a mill fence.
Dauenhauer says those hats represented lost jobs and negativity that accompanied the mill's 2010 closure.
Associated Press
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