Manufacturing Industry
Darnel picks site for U.S. debut.(Darnel Inc.)
Plastics News, October, 2006 by DeRosa, Angie
Byline: Angie DeRosa Disposable food-service products maker Darnel Inc., a unit of Colombia's Ajover SA, will open its first stateside production facility, in Monroe, N.C., by the second quarter of 2007. The company purchased a 249,000-square-foot facility on 34 acres in Monroe, according to a local development group, the Union County Partnership for Progress.
Darnel will invest a total of $20 million during the next three years, including $14.8 million in equipment including sheet extrusion and thermoforming capacity. It will invest just over $1 million in building renovations. The acreage "gives them lots of room for expansion,'' said Maurice Ewing, president of the development group, in an Oct. 19 telephone interview. "They could double the size of...
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