Color, additives maker Americhem expanding

Americhem Inc. is adding 1,400 square meters of space for manufacturing, labs, shipping and office work at its plant in Dalton, Georgia.

The project, including new warehousing and shipping facilities, will be completed in spring of this year, officials with Cuyahoga Falls-based Americhem said in a January 23 news release. The new lab will be a color design center that will allow customers to view more than 1,000 color fiber samples under multiple lighting conditions. Customers then will be able to design fiber color products at the site, using the plant’s existing fiber extrusion lab equipment.

No cost estimate for the project was available, spokesman Scott Blanchard said. Americhem, a maker of color and additive concentrates, acquired the 8,400-square-meter Dalton plant when it bought Color and Additive Technologies Inc. in late 2005. The expansion will not create any new jobs at the Dalton plant, which currently employs 45.

A new additive and color concentrate line already has been installed in Dalton to handle growth in the nonwoven fibers market. Blanchard said the new line will “substantially increase capacity” for polyolefin-based products in Dalton, but he declined to provide details. The southeastern U.S. is home to a great deal of carpet production.

In the release, Americhem business director Russ Neuman said that officials “anticipate several product introductions for nonwovens in the near future.”

Americhem also is working on a $2.3 million (17.9 million yuan) expansion that will add 185 square meters of space for research and development work at its Cuyahoga Falls headquarters. In late 2005, Americhem opened its first Asian operation — a 3,250-square-meter, 30-employee plant in Suzhou, China. Globally, the firm employs about 650 at eight production sites.

Americhem posted sales of more than $200 million (1.56 million yuan) in 2006. The firm ranks among North America’s largest producers of color compounds and concentrates, according to a Plastics News estimate.




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