Company may move to Weber County
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OGDEN -- Another company at the Freeport Center in Clearfield could be relocating to Weber County and creating more than 60 new high-paying jobs.
At a board meeting Friday, the Governor's Office of Economic Development approved up to $286,000 in tax rebates over a 10-year period for Malnove Inc. of Utah to relocate to a new facility in Weber County.
Malnove is a manufacturer of folding-carton packaging for frozen foods, household items, and baked and dry goods. The company has more than 100 employees at the Freeport Center.
State and local officials are working to keep Malnove from moving a planned relocation and expansion out of the state.
As part of the deal, the company would have to bring 104 existing positions to the area and add 63 more jobs that would pay $41,350 annually, or 92 percent above the county median wage of $21,500, said Michael Sullivan, communication director for GOED.
The amount of the incentive is contingent on how many new jobs are created, Sullivan said.
"They have to be incremental new jobs above the existing employee baseline," he said.
He said the company is planning to move because it has outgrown its space in Clearfield, where it has no room to expand, and because the existing facility is deteriorating with age.
Malnove officials could not be reached for comment Friday.
In addition to the Weber Industrial Park near Pleasant View, Sullivan said the company is looking at sites in Reno and Las Vegas, as well as Stockton, Calif., where it already has a facility.
Weber County is also working on an incentive package that would be required to qualify for the state incentive, but that process is still in the preliminary stages, said Ron Kusina, chief executive of Weber Economic Development Corp.
"We've taken the first steps to creating a zone for them, but we're still a ways from getting anything approved," Kusina said.
Sullivan said the local incentive would have to be worth at least $300,000 to qualify for the state incentive.
Three companies -- Rossignol, Scott USA and Lofthouse Foods -- have already left the aging Freeport Center in recent years for newer, larger facilities at Business Depot Ogden.
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