WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) -Sealed Air corporation, which operates two facilities in Wichita County, is considering an expansion.

This expansion could invest as much as $33 million and offer 25 additional new jobs.

Sealed Air has been a part of the community for almost 50 years, providing protective packaging solutions that fit the needs of customers.

The decision to consider expanding is one the plant is basing on the support they anticipate from the community.

”Sealed Air came to us with a proposed expansion, it hadn’t been decided on a corporate level, but the corporate decided that if they could expand capacity at their plant and Iowa Park, that they could potentially invest $33 million and create 25 jobs to run the new lines,” Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce partner Moriah Williams said.

Sealed Air has built a relationship with the chamber through previous partnerships.

In effort to support the expansion, the chamber offered an incentive package that the plant could get behind.

”They currently employ 800 people between both plants, and again, it was something that when we came to them with the incentive package, it was kind of an agreement like if we do this, you will have to retain all your employees as well as create the new positions, and they were completely on board with that,” Williams said.

Wichita County is working to secure the expansion as Sealed Air mulls its options.

“Again, we are in competition with two other states for this expansion, so it hasn’t completely been one yet, but a lot of their decision was contingent upon what kind of support would they get from the community, and so that’s why we came up with an incentive package for them,“ Williams said.

Increasing capacity and revenue are just two of the benefits of what could potentially come. Creating a stronger work force for the community is a shared goal that both the chamber and the plant agree on.

”I mean, I think it’s just important that if they, if they go through with this expansion, we will continue, we will do compliance with them, we work with them every year to make sure that they are doing the things that they said they were going to do while we do the things we said we will do and just continue the partnership,” Williams said.

The expansion could affect both the Wichita Falls and Iowa Park locations.

Williams said from the plant’s corporate perspective they are looking to move quickly on this.

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