Another expanding south A Canadian-based timber manufacturer that Walmart has invested in announced Monday it's spending $90 million to open a plant in Arkansas, the company's first in the United States
Structurlam Timber will purchase, and retrofit a faciity in Conway and create 130 new jobs at the facility. The plant is set to open in mid-2021 and will source softwood lumber from Arkansas-grown southern pine trees.
Walmart will be the first customer of the facility, and plans to use more than 1.1 million cubic feet of Arkansas-grown and Arkansas-produced timber in its new home office campus.
The company said the new location will meet the demand in the U.S. for mass timber, building construction. Featuring structural laminated wood components for walls, roofs, beams and columns.
Arkansas Economic Development Commission says the project is receiving $1.5 million from an incentive fund, as well as tax refunds and rebates.