During the year-end Jasper City Council Meeting on December 5th, Community Economic Development Director Gerry Nechvatal gave an economic update for Jasper to close out the year. Nechvatal came with both bad and good news.

The bad news is that Eleison Composites in Jasper, a plastics material and resin manufacturing company, was recently bought out. Although, Nechvatal did not name the company that bought out Eleison, he did say that the move will close down the Jasper facility, which will in turn be relocated to Charleston, South Carolina. The closing of this facility, Nechvatal said, would cost seven jobs. Nechvatal asserted, though, that the good news in all this is that he is working with two other, established and known companies that will more than offset the seven job loss from Eleison. Nechvatal did not give the names of these two companies, due to certain measures of confidentiality.

Nechvatal also discussed several film productions in Jasper.

“There is one,” he said, “that is going to be filming in the state of Georgia as well as North Carolina; they’re going to be filming in numerous locations and they have selected Jasper as the location as one their scenes.”

He added that he and the Mayor would meet later in the week to discuss the details, stressing that the project is a major motion picture.