A Vietnamese company that makes nitrile gloves is coming to Lake Village.
Phu Duc Huy US Inc. is buying 15 acres of land for a production plant, said Shane Knight, deputy director of the Southeast Arkansas Economic Development District. The cost for the land is about $400,000.
The company’s facility will be connected to a $50 million landfill waste-to-energy gasification plant that was announced last year and is coming to Chicot County, making it the first of its kind in the South.
Phu Duc Huy is “wrapping up negotiations on the property,” Knight told Arkansas Business on Wednesday afternoon. He said that he hopes the negotiations are finished on Thursday.
The company will have an initial production run with about 150 to 200 employees. It will have about 300 employees when it’s fully operational.
Phu Duc Huy will build a plant at the site and lease about a 100,000-SF warehouse to use as storage of the product. The company will have six production lines and produce about 4.2 million gloves a day that are typically used in medical or industrial settings.
Knight said that he hopes construction starts by the end of the year. The general contractor for the project is Brody Richardson Construction LLC of Sheridan.
Phu Duc Huy’s plant will be connected to the waste-to-energy plant that will be built and operated by MD Power LLC of Lakeland, Florida. That plant won’t burn trash, but rather heat it to gasify the solid waste.
“We’re actually going to connect the two now because the power plant is going to provide the steam and repurpose the water coming off the glove factory,” Knight said. “So it’ll take the runoff of the water from the glove factory and then use solid waste to create a synthetic gas that will be used to power the turbines to create the steam that will be piped back to the glove factory.”
The waste-to-energy plant is starting the permitting process through Arkansas’ Department of Energy & Environment for construction and air permits.
MD Power “has gotten the financing for it, everything’s together,” Knight said.
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