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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Lufkin Industries, Temple-Inland weather the storm
Lufkin Industries is back up and running after Hurricane Ike, minus a few employees who are still trying to recover from the damage done to their homes. “The power was turned on to our Buck Creek plant (Tuesday night), and we are operating this morning. All of our Lufkin manufacturing operations are now operating,” Paul Perez, vice president of Lufkin Industries, said Wednesday morning. “We have some issues with individual employees who have hardships they’re working through, but we’re hoping that, as soon as power is restored to the rest of the community, everyone will be available to come back to work.” Temple-Inland expects that all of its facilities will resume operations within the next few days, once power is restored to all of them. Each of the affected building products facilities is expected to experience about two days of lost production, according to the company. “We were pleased that no employees were injured due to the hurricane and that the facilities did not sustain any damage,” Doyle R. Simons, chairman and CEO of Temple-Inland, said in a news release. “Our employees did an outstanding job preparing for this storm and are working diligently to resume normal production at our facilities. Temple-Inland is deeply concerned for the communities where we operate, as damage was widespread in the East Texas area, especially Orange, Texas. We are committed to helping employees and the community recover from Hurricane Ike.” Full story here.
