Arkansas leaders help cut ribbon on Hanwha project at Pine Bluff Arsenal
The cut of a large, orange ribbon signaled the start of a project representing the largest investment in the history of Pine Bluff and Jefferson County.
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders joined officials from Hanwha Defense USA just outside the Pine Bluff Arsenal on Monday (Sept. 21) for a 25-minute opening ceremony for a $2.2-billion, 1,065-acre advanced munitions manufacturing campus on the base. Hanwha and state leaders say the project will bring 400 new jobs to the local workforce at an average wage of $50 per hour.
“We’re not just celebrating the biggest economic development project in Pine Bluff history, but also one of the biggest in Arkansas history,” Sanders said. “This will be Hanwha’s first munitions manufacturing facility anywhere in the United States, producing artillery ammunition. … This is the kind of transformational investment Jefferson County and the Delta need.”
Office space has been made available for Hanwha workers on the second floor of th…