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Lufkin City Council approves airport hangar, Street Overlay Program

The Lufkin City Council delivered final approval at Tuesday’s regular meeting to fund construction of a corporate hangar at the Angelina County Airport. During its last regular meeting, on March

In East Texas town, a 45-foot tall oil pump is a holiday symbol and connection to the past

Rudolph the Red-Nose Pumping Unit has long been a holiday tradition in Lufkin.

In this East Texas town, a 45-foot tall oil pump is a holiday symbol and connection to the past

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In this East Texas town, a 45-foot tall oil pump is a holiday symbol and connection to the past

Rudolph the Red-Nose Pumping Unit has long been a holiday tradition in Lufkin. The machinery, now used worldwide to extract oil from the ground, was invented by a local businessman.

SAMFORD: Thank you for supporting foreign-trade zone

In a time when collaboration and shared vision are more important than ever, I want to take this opportunity to express Lufkin Economic Development Corporation’s gratitude to the Lufkin taxing

Lufkin Creative to show sneak peek of cultural district application at The Pines

Lufkin Creative will offer an exclusive sneak peek of its application to become a Texas cultural district at noon Monday at The Pines Theater, 113 S. First St.

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Eric Brun Gattefossé USA, a branch of the French corporation Gattefossé, will build its first North American manufacturing plant in Lufkin, the Lufkin Economic Development Corporation announced Tuesday. Gattefossé is a 140-year-old family-owned company from Lyon, France. Its Lufkin facility will produce lipid-based specialty ingredients for the beauty and health care industries worldwide. The company only has two other manufacturing plants, one in France, the other in Singapore. Discussions of their investment began in February when Economic Development director Bob Samford met with the company’s global CEO Eduardo De Purgly. “They were looking at an alternative site that was going to restrict their growth, so he reached out to me and we started discussing how we can put them in a position where they were not only meeting their current requirements but their future growth as well,” Samford said.

Gattefossé plans almost $37 million investment in Lufkin