Baraboo awarded TEA grant

Published: August 31, 2006

Baraboo – Gov. Jim Doyle announced that the city of Baraboo will receive
a $626,000 Transportation Economic Assistance grant to support the expansion
efforts of Teel Plastics Inc.

This expansion is expected to result in directly and indirectly creating and maintaining
559 jobs, with a yearly payroll of $14.9 million.

The grant will be used for construction of Mine Road and will improve access
to Teel Plastic Inc.’s facility in Baraboo. The total cost of the project
is $1.3 million, and Baraboo is covering the remaining balance of the costs.

Since 1951, Teel Plastics has been a Baraboo manufacturer that provides custom
plastic tubing for medical, water-filtration, automotive and packaging purposes.
It’s been on the cutting edge of the manufacturing industry by being the
first to extrude paper-plastic composite materials, and also pioneered the prototype
for multilayer fuel line tubing.

In August, Doyle announced $115,000 from the Department of Agriculture, Trade
and Consumer Protection to help Teel Plastics research and develop new residential
siding materials that use recycled maple wood fibers.

TEA grants are awarded to local communities, businesses and consortiums for
transportation projects that attract employers to Wisconsin or encourage businesses
to expand in state.

Since it was created in 1987, the TEA grant program has invested $68.4 million
in 259 projects benefiting 283 businesses and creating 63,431 jobs in Wisconsin.