SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Global packaging and pulp producer International Paper is closing one of its San Antonio plants and issuing pink slips to 89 workers. The Memphis-based company told the Texas Workforce Commission it is shuttering its plant at 610 Pop Gunn St. on the city’s East Side in mid-November. Equipment operators, mechanics, shipping staff and electricians at the cardboard production plant, also known as a sheet feeder plant, are among those being laid off, according to a list International Paper sent to the commission. They were notified in September and can apply for positions at other International Paper facilities, the company said. International Paper also operates a container plant at 1111 AT&T Center Parkway. The status of that facility was unclear Wednesday. …International Paper is laying off about 650 employees company-wide, including 400 in Memphis.

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