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The company expects to keep open its sales, customer service, design and warehouse operations in Evansville, however. A prepared news release, issued Monday by Temple-Inland's corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas, said the effective date for the Evansville production closing is June However, a letter, dated March 29 and sent by Aldrine J. Fritz II, Temple-Inland's associate general counsel, to Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel, lists the closing date as May 28 or during a day period thereafter, unless an employee is offered and accepts continued employment with the company in another position.

Just under employees in production will lose their jobs: 13 salaried employees and 84 hourly employees, according to the letter sent to Weinzapfel. The release also said Temple-Inland's Arizona production operation will close as well, laying off 89 workers there. Temple-Inland has seven paper mills and 60 box plants, all in the United States, except for three plants in Mexico and one plant in Puerto Rico.

Neither the letter to the mayor or the corporate news release gave a reason for the shuttering of the local production.

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Greg Wathen, president and chief executive officer of the Economic Development Corp. While Wathen said he had no idea why the local operation will close, he said he couldn't imagine it taking the production overseas. Please download the new version of the Courierpress app. Posted: March 29,