中国公司赴美建厂成趋势 泉林纸业20亿美元下注美国市场

    多年以来，业务经营的一个常见特点是：美国公司逃到中国，希望能够在低成本劳动力的支持下削减成本。

    但与这个趋势相反，中国的一家纸浆和造纸公司山东泉林纸业有限公司（Shandong Tranlin Paper Co.,）上周宣布，计划投资20亿美元，在弗吉尼亚州设立它在美国的第一家现代化制造厂。这个项目预计将在2020年创造2,000个新工作岗位。

    泉林纸业拥有年产40万吨精制浆、70万吨机制纸、40万吨有机肥、24亿食品医药包装盒的生产能力，现已开发出一种使用农作物秸秆造纸的创新技术，例如那些收割后通常留在农田里的玉米和谷物副产品。

    弗吉尼亚州农林部长托德•海默尔说：“我们正在努力实现经济增长和多样化，通过向中国市场出口、同时为这里的企业界引入中国投资，借此与我们最大的农林业贸易伙伴中国继续建立密切的关系十分关键。”

    “通过将通常留在农田里的农作物废料创造出非常有利可图的新市场，泉林为弗吉尼亚州玉米和小粒谷物种植主带来了巨大的机遇，”海默尔补充说。“根据这个项目涉及的相关农业供应链商机来计算，一旦这个项目完工，满负荷运转，仅为这个地区农场主产生的经济效益一项就超过5,000万美元。”

    这个项目将建在弗吉尼亚州切斯特菲尔德县詹姆士河工业中心（James River Industrial Center）一处占地850英亩（约合5160亩）的园区内。

    虽然按照弗吉尼亚的标准来看，这已经是一项大投资，但其实之前已经有先例。其他中国公司之前已经进入美国，其中就包括中国设备制造商三一（Sany）。这家公司最近在佐治亚州设立了办公室，准备开拓美国市场。（财富中文网）

    It’s been a regular feature of business pages for years: An American company flees to China, hoping to cut cost with the help of cheap labor.

    But in a reversal of this trend, a Chinese pulp and paper company, Shandong Tranlin Paper Co., announced this week that it plans to invest $2 billion to establish its first American-based advanced manufacturing operation in Virginia. The project is projected to create 2,000 new jobs by 2020.

    Tranlin, which has an annual productivity of 400,000 tons of refined pulp, 700,000 tons of machine-made paper, 400,000 tons of organic fertilizers, and 2.4 billion food and medical packaging boxes, has developed an innovative technology to make paper, using agricultural residuals, such as corn and grain byproducts normally left in farm fields after harvest.

    “As we work to grow and diversify our economy, it is vital that we continue to build relationships with our largest agricultural and forestry trade partner, China, through both exports into Chinese markets and Chinese investments in business ventures here,” said Todd Haymore, Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry.

    “Tranlin represents a tremendous opportunity for Virginia’s corn and small grain producers by creating a lucrative new market for agricultural residuals that are typically left in the field,” Haymore added. “Based on the agricultural supply chain opportunities associated with the project, the economic benefit to farmers in this region alone could exceed $50 million per year once the project is complete and operating at full capacity.”

    The project will be based at an 850-acre campus located at the James River Industrial Center in Chesterfield County, Va.

    Though big by Virginia standards, the move is not unprecedented. Other Chinese companies have come to the United States, among the Chinese equipment manufacturer Sany, which recently opened sleek offices in Georgia as it tries to tap into the American market.