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Two Start-Ups Use JOBZ to Set Up Plants

LECENTER, MN-Shetka Works will buy a vacant 24,000-sf building and Electronic Assembly Specialists will occupy a new city-owned building. They will spend about $4 million on the two projects, aided by the state's Job Opportunity Building Zone initiative.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on June 07, 2004

LECENTER, MN-Two startup businesses, Shetka Works and Electronic Assembly Specialists, will take advantage of Minnesota’s Job Opportunity Building Zone initiative, Gov. Tim Pawlenty says. Together, they’ll account for more than $4 million in capital investment and the anticipated creation of as many as 60 new jobs.

Shetka Works of LeCenter, LLC, uses an innovative manufacturing process for converting waste pulp, paper and fiber products into high quality tabletops, counters and work surfaces. Shetka has purchased a vacant 24,000-sf building in LeCenter, and anticipates a total capital investment of about $3.4 million in the new company. Shetka expects the LeCenter facility will employ between 20 and 40 people in its first year of full production.

“Essentially we take paper and turn it back into wood,” says Stan Shetka, who invented the manufacturing process used by his new company. He says his process is cleaner, uses no chemicals, and results in a product that’s “easier to work with than wood.”

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