Sun Paper will open a bio-refinery in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Sun Paper will invest more than $1 billion in the bio-products mill and create 250 new jobs at an average salary of $52,000 a year. This will be the company’s first facility in North America.

Sun Paper to open bio-products mill in Arkadelphia, Arkansas

May 02, 2016. /Lesprom Network/. Sun Paper will open a bio-refinery in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Sun Paper will invest more than $1 billion in the bio-products mill and create 250 new jobs at an average salary of $52,000 a year. This will be the company’s first facility in North America.

Arkadelphia is located in the heart of Arkansas’ timber industry with easy access to Interstate 30. Forests cover about 18.8 million acres – about half of the state – mostly in South Arkansas.

Headquartered in China’s Shandong Province, Sun Paper ranks among the top 500 Chinese enterprises and one of the world’s top pulp and paper makers.