A New Jersey-based agri-business manufacturer has purchased a Muncy facility and anticipates 69 new full-time jobs with possible expansion of its staff to eventually create hundreds of jobs once the plant begins operation in a year.

Officials with Farm Plast Inc. (a.k.a. Farmplast), of Parsippany, Wednesday joined state Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding, Brent Vernon, senior project and account management Business PA – state Department of Community and Economic Development, state Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Loyalsock Township, and state Rep. Joe Hamm, R-Hepburn Township, inside the approximate 200,000-square-foot building at 100 Sherman St.

The firm manufactures milk crates, bread trays, and totes for the pharmaceutical and magazine industries, using injection molding machines that will be at the plant, trucking the products to users across the state and nation, said Eric Lomak, Farmplast general manager.

“I like this project particularly because it brings together a couple of things inside of our state economic development strategy,” Redding said.

“The beauty is in the connections between manufacturing, the life sciences, energy, and robotics,” Redding said.

Farmplast will put $8 million of its own capital investment into this operation while the Commonwealth is putting in another $4 million into creating agriculture and manufacturing jobs here, Vernon announced.