MINERAL WELLS -A company that provides food packaging will hold a ribbon-cutting for the opening of its plastic recycling facility Tuesday.

PWP Industries will have an opening ceremony 11 a.m. Tuesday to unveil its new facility as well as a deal with a national soft drink company.

Gov. Joe Manchin and several area officials and company representatives will be on hand.

"PWP has been a real success story in the area," said Wood County Economic Development Authority President Keith Burdette. "They are over 200 employees that manufacture packaging for the food industry."

The company recently completed an 80,000-square-foot addition to the back of its Mineral Wells site. The new section will serve as plastic recycling facility.

PWP will work with Coca-Cola Recycling LLC to recycle PETE post-consumer bottles into FDA compliant resin for food contact, company officials said.

Company officials said the recycling facility is expected to initially bring 23 jobs to the area.

"This is a great deal for the country and a great deal for the green industry," Burdette said.

In the November 2008 "Open For Business Report" from Manchin's office, the West Virginia Economic Development Authority approved a $3 million loan to the Polymer Alliance Zone Inc. (PAZ) to build the addition on the three-acre site in Mineral Wells.

PWP Industries was founded in 1998 and became part of HPC Industries LLC in 2001. In 2002, manufacturing facilities were consolidated into a renovated state-of-the-art facility in Vernon, Calif. A second plant was established in 2003 in Mineral Wells and expanded in 2006 to include polypropylene production.