YOUNGSTOWN – Kimberly-Clark – the Fortune 200 company well-known for such consumer brands as Kleenex, Cottonnelle, Huggies and Kotex – has planted a flag in Trumbull County, acquiring more than half of the 1,000-acre legacy Republic Steel site.

The Western Reserve Port Authority, which in 2021 gained control of the land, also the former RG Steel, agreed Thursday evening to sell 560 acres to the Texas-based company, one of the largest manufacturers of tissue products in the world.

The sale price was $9.9 million.

Read details in Friday’s edition of The Vindicator.