New East Texas manufacturing facility will provide jobs

CORRIGAN – Gov. Greg Abbott visited East Texas on Wednesday for a $211 million expansion of a timber manufacturing company. According to our news partner KETK, RoyOMartin is expanding its wood manufacturing efforts in the Piney Woods. Their Corrigan plant, Corrigan OSB, LLC is now the largest facility of its type in the nation.

Executive Vice President of Manufacturing and Product Sales Terry Secrest said the new development will create 300 new jobs for the area. “These are not low-level entry type jobs that people can create a career with, and they can continue with a lifetime employment here continuing to learn and grow and excel,” Secrest said.

While speaking to a crowed of more than 200 entrepreneurs and workers, Abbott assured the new plan will put out more products and help Texas build new homes.

“One reason why people are feeling the pains of inflation and higher cost of living and higher cost of housing is because of inadequate supply of housing,” Abbott said at the opening event.

A report by the state this summer found that Texas needs about 306,000 more homes. That’s an issue this plant should help with in the future.

“To put that in more understandable terms, that will build about 125,000 U.S. homes every single year out of this one plant,” Secrest said.

To help in construction, the plant will produce 1.3 billion square feet of product each year, all here in East Texas.

“What RoyOMartin is doing with this OSB facility, they are trying to drive down the cost of housing by facilitating building houses faster, quicker better in the great state of Texas,” Abbott said.