Bakken Readers Never Cease To Amaze Me -- August 21, 2019

A reader sent me this link regarding an open house in Valley City earlier this summer for Drug Plastics.

I was curious. What does "Drug Plastics" do and why was the expansion necessary?

Drug Plastics in Valley City will be installing four new bottle processing machines to greatly increase their manufacturing capacity for a new client.

First, the photo at the link for the facility in North Dakota:

Now, look at this URL: https://www.cannabistech.com/directory/drug-plastics/.

Note the logo at the website. It matches the logo at the Valley City facility.

And what does "Drug Plastics" do?

From the website:

North Dakota ships light, sweet oil (CBR) to Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania ships plastic back to North Dakota to make plastic containers for marijuana.

What a great country!

But as the reader noted: why aren't we making that plastic here in, say, Tioga?

And why does a Pennsylvania-based plastics company have a plant in North Dakota? Let me count the ways:

• inexpensive electricity
• educated and motivated workforce
• right-to-work
• lower wages (because cost-of-living less expensive in North Dakota)
• fewer regulations to get a plant up and running
• lower taxes
• less crime

But the biggest question: who is that new big client that required expansion at the plant? Let me guess. A company out in Portland, Oregon, or San Francisco, CA.