Plastic bottle plant sets February opening

Monday, Jan. 3, 2000 | 11:36 a.m.

Continental P.E.T. Technologies plans to open its Henderson packaging and bottle plant next month.

The company paid $10 million for the 300,000-square-foot industrial building that was formerly occupied by Big O Tires.

The new plant will initially employ 76 people and manufacture packaging for the food and beverage industry, including plastic bottles for Ocean Spray Cranberries, which also has a Henderson plant.

Burnett Haase Construction said it won the $2.2 million contract to convert the former Big O distribution center into its new manufacturing use.

Continental P.E.T. is a division of Toledo, Ohio-based Owens-Illinois Inc.

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