Schulz breaks ground on $300 million pipe manufacturing facility in Mississippi

Officials from Schulz GMBH, a Germany-based global supplier of piping components, joined Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and local economic officials to celebrate the groundbreaking of a pipe manufacturing facility in Tunica County. Construction of the 450,000 square-foot plant will begin May 1, and production is scheduled to begin in December. Schulz's Mississippi division will be known as Schulz Xtruded Products, or SXP, and will produce seamless extruded metallurgical bonded pipe utilizing a new extrusion process for the oil and gas industries. The plant is expected to create approximately 500 new jobs over the next five years. “I am delighted to join Wolfgang Schulz and other company officials at the site of Schulz's new manufacturing facility in Tunica County today,” said Governor Barbour. “We could not be more pleased that this premier global company chose to locate its first North American production facility in the Mississippi Delta, and I am proud that Schulz officials have placed their confidence in the state's workforce and in our business climate.”