The Seymour City Council approved a $654,000 tax abatement for the purchase of equipment by RR Donnelley, a commercial printing company that has been doing business at Seymour’s Freeman Field Industrial Park for three decades.
The 10-year tax abatement will allow the company to buy new manufacturing and information technology equipment.
The company, located at 709 A Avenue East, currently has a workforce of 111 with $4,115,369 in salaries.
In 2019, RR Donnelley received a $3.4 million tax abatement for new equipment. Around the same time, the company was given a $114 million contract from the U.S. Government Publishing Office to produce materials for the 2020 Census.
Founded in 1864, the company provides marketing and business communications, commercial printing and related services, and 200 locations in 28 countries and 33,000 employees.