New Braunfels Edition | September 2025

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Leo Plastics—a Canada-based manufacturing company—is expanding with a new facility in New Braunfels at 2625 Goodwin Lane. The new 70,000-square-foot facility is part of the company’s Leo, USA expansion project, which will serve customers in Mexico and the Southern United States area and manufacture custom blow-molded plastic parts, compo- nents and products, as previously reported by Community Impact . New Braunfels City Council approved two resolutions recommending its economic devel- opment corporation, or NBEDC, authorize an incentive not to exceed $950,000 for Leo and nominating the company for Enterprise Zone $950k incentive OK’d for Canada- based company

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Leo USA Inc. will be located at 2625 Goodwin Lane in New Braunfels.

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private-sector investment that directly supports community economic development priorities. Jewell said the program makes Texas communi- ties more competitive in site selection. “Those incentives are performance-based, meaning that the companies have to fulll the minimum investment and employment thresh- olds, and then they get a rebate of that state sales tax back to the company,” he said. “It does not cost the city of New Braunfels anything.”

Project designation under the state’s Texas Enterprise Zone Program on Aug. 25. The Texas Enterprise Zone Program is a state-level economic development tool that provides a rebate of state use and sales tax for companies that meet certain investment and employment thresholds, said Je Jewell, New Braunfels’ director of economic and community development. The program is designed to encourage

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