Saint-Gobain's CertainTeed Gypsum opens plant , Moundsville, West Virginia
" CertainTeed Gypsum, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saint-Gobain of France, hosted the grand opening of its new manufacturing plant near Moundsville, West Virginia, on May 30, 2008.At $150 million, the CertainTeed Gypsum plant represents the largest manufacturing investment in the state since 1996, when Toyota announced it was locating an engine plant in Buffalo. The 750,000-square-foot manufacturing facility sits near the American Electric Power (AEP) Kammer-Mitchell coal-burning power plant. CertainTeed recycles a byproduct from AEP's scrubber stack and converts it into raw material for producing high-quality gypsum wallboards. The new plant is expected to create 200 jobs within three years. "