Community Profile

Principal Economic Activities

Arizona's only pulp and paper mill is Snowflake's largest industry. Abitibi Consolidated Sales Corporation, located on a 640-acre site 15 miles west of Snowflake, is one of the most modern and efficient facilities of its type in America. Its daily production of 1,300 combined tons of newsprint and kraft linerboard supplies the fast-growing Southwest region. This community is the home to a 20-acre hydroponic tomato-growing greenhouse facility, Suntastic USA, Inc., located in the Snowflake Industrial Park. This high-tech agribusiness plant provides more than 100 FTE positions and ships tomatoes throughout the entire United States.

Vinings Industries Inc. distributes paper manufacturing chemicals to Abitibi Consolidated Sales Corporation. P.F.F.J. Inc., is a large swine production company, producing market pigs for Cloughety Packing. P.F.F.J.'s 130 employees work in areas of production, maintenance, feed-milling, transportation and administratioon. Smith Moulding and Snowflake Lumber & Moulding are two other major employers in the area. Farming and ranching continue to be major activities in the area. All of Navajo County is an Enterprise Zone.