Plaquemine plant making its presence felt: SNF Holding Company, which plans to build a $362 million water-soluble polymers plant near Plaquemine, has launched a local Web site. Snfplaquemine.com will provide regular updates on the construction of the plant and allow interested vendors to provide information to the company. SNF is getting ready to file regulatory permits with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. The company hopes to begin construction in early 2010.
Seafood industry loses innovator: Funeral services have been set for a former Terrebonne Parish police juror and seafood dealer who patented a way to pressure-treat oysters to kill bacteria. Eighty-one-year-old Ernest Andrew Voisin died Thursday. A funeral Mass is set for Tuesday in Houma. Voisin served on the Terrebonne Police Jury from 1980 to 1984. He was the owner and chairman of the board for Motivatit Seafoods. Voisin was named Seafood Business Person of the Year in 2001 by Seafood Business Magazine for his high-pressure oyster-processing patent.
