{"id":210630,"date":"2026-09-28T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210630"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:27:37","slug":"new-jobs-coming-to-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/28\/new-jobs-coming-to-antwerp\/","title":{"rendered":"New jobs coming to Antwerp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A state approved tax break will help create a substantial number of new jobs in Antwerp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During its monthly meeting, the Ohio Tax Credit Authority gave the green light to an eight-year, 1.437 percent Job Creation Tax Credit for Canadian-based Polyethics Industries Inc. The company expects to create 250 full-time-equivalent positions, generating $12 million in new annual payroll by Dec. 31, 2030, in the village of Antwerp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polyethics\/EcoPoly is described as a leader in manufacturing plastics from 100 percent recycled materials that are compostable, degradable and\/or recyclable. The company produces garbage bags, agricultural plastics, food packaging, and industrial packaging for mostly private label customers. The proposed project involves establishing the company\u2019s first U.S. operations, siting a new manufacturing facility in the midwest as major private label customers have significantly increased demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A state approved tax break will help create a substantial number of new jobs in Antwerp. During its monthly meeting, the Ohio Tax Credit Authority gave the green light to an eight-year, 1.437 percent Job Creation Tax Credit for Canadian-based Polyethics Industries Inc. The company expects to create 250 full-time-equivalent positions, generating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-06 17:49:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210631,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210630\/revisions\/210631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}