Bakken-Support Plant To Open in Rapid City, South Dakota

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November 3, 2011: The Rapid City Journal says the plant will be in Belle Fourche.

Pipeline Plastics has begun breaking ground on the northwest edge of Belle Fourche for a manufacturing plant that is expected to bring as many as 40 jobs to the community.

City and local business officials are working with the Texas company for an official groundbreaking they hope will be before Thanksgiving.

Mayor Gary Hendrickson said Friday the new plant is just the first success in the city's effort to further cash in on the Bakken oil field boom in North Dakota.

Belle Fourche has railroad and four-lane highway connections to Interstate 90. U.S. Highway 85 carries increasing traffic to the Bakken development, all of which Hendrickson said makes the city an ideal staging, manufacturing and transportation center.

Pipeline Plastics vice president Keith Fisher said Friday that the firm has worked on the project since spring. All the pieces finally came together to close on land earlier in the week.

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Link here to Dickinson Press.

A Texas-based pipe maker has started construction on a manufacturing plant in Rapid City.

WL Plastics Director Mike Dahl says the South Dakota plant will help supply North Dakota's oil industry. The plant will employ about 40 people.