# Fort Smith approves incentives to attract Silgan plastic food container plant, could add 150 jobs

Fort Smith's board unanimously approved tax incentive resolutions to help attract Silgan Plastic Food Containers to a planned 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility, which could create 150 jobs by its third year. The chamber said the project was not yet a done deal.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-11-20
- Where: Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States
- Jobs: 150
- Status: rumored
- Capacity: 100,000 square foot facility
- Products: plastic food containers
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Silgan Plastic Food Containers](https://endata.com/companies/2439.md)

## Sources

- [talkbusiness.net](https://talkbusiness.net/2017/11/fort-smith-board-approves-tax-incentives-to-attract-silgan-could-add-150-jobs/), 2017-11-21: "Fort Smith has moved closer to attaining a planned 100,000-square foot manufacturing facility for Silgan Plastic Food Containers Corporation"

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