Plans to open a plant in Selma to produce Personal Protective Equipment are “100% still on,” the president of the company said Tuesday.
Jeremy Wootten, president of Cullman-based HomTex, said the 90,000-square-foot plant on Ravenwood Drive in Selma’s original industrial park will eventually house 21 production lines for surgical masks and N95 facial masks. The former Disco Aluminum plant is filled with 180 crates of equipment specially designed to make the masks, as well as some raw material used to form the masks.
Wootten said “if everything goes according to plan” the plant will open by the end of 2022. The plant could employ as many as 300 workers with a starting salary of $17, but the number of employees will depend on the number of orders HomTex can secure, he said.
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