THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, September 22, 1994 TAG: 9409220447
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D2 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MAC DANIEL, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SUFFOLK LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
Allied Colloids North America Inc. gained permission Wednesday to expand its chemical plant and create office space on 121 acres of land adjacent to its Suffolk plant.
The City Council approved the move 6-1. Vice Mayor Curtis Milteer voted against the request.
Milteer and two attorneys representing landowners said Allied's rezoning request was not specific. A city document said the company would use the new facility ``as a chemical plant similar to the type of activity currently taking place at the existing plant.''
An attorney for Allied said that, because of the ever-changing nature of chemical manufacturing, the role of the plant is up in the air.
One attorney protesting the expansion said the council was approving the plan without knowing any specifics about what the plant would manufacture or its impact on the surrounding environment.
The Suffolk-based company, a subsidiary of Britain's Allied Colloids PLC, announced in June that it would build a plant to manufacture an ingredient of polymers, a $10 million investment that would create about 10 jobs.
The facility is to begin production in 1996. The company now employs 385 people in Suffolk. by CNB