Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 18, 1995                   TAG: 9507180060
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

DANVILLE - Intertape Polymer Corp. will create 66 new jobs and expand its Pittsylvania Industrial Park plant to manufacture a new product, stretch-wrap packaging. The company now makes pressure-sensitive tape.

Intertape Polymer, based in Montreal, plans to invest more than $20 million in the manufacturing of its new stretch-wrap products. The largest potential for the new product is the wrapping of agricultural products, such as silage, in 500-pound packages. Products enclosed in this wrap will have a shelf life of three years.

Melbourne F. Yull, chairman and chief executive officer of the company, said Monday that he was pleased the new product will be manufactured in Pittsylvania County. ``The community has supported the company and has proved to be a good place to do business,'' he said.

Gov. George Allen gave the locality $200,000 for site preparation from the state's Opportunity Fund.

- Associated Press

Coal production down 17 percent

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Domestic coal production for the week ending July 8, which included the Independence Day holiday, was down 17 percent to 15.6 million tons from 18.7 million tons produced the previous week.

The U.S. coal industry produced 14.9 million tons in the corresponding week last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Domestic coal production so far this year is 520 million tons, about 3 percent ahead of last year's production at this time.

The week's production accounts for bituminous and lignite coal.

- Associated Press