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the electronics, aerospace and composites markets. With more than 11,000 machine installations worldwide and more than 150 associates worldwide, “Machine Solutions’ partnership with Steeger USA better equips the combined company to service its diverse customer base,” said the release. “Adding Steeger USA further broadens the products and services we provide our medical device customers and allows Machine Solutions to enter other high-precision industries through Steeger USA’s diverse braiding applications and customer base,” said Ryan Gable, chairman and CEO of Machine Solutions.
Laurens packaging company expands with $30M investment Global packaging firm CCL Industries Inc. announced plans to invest $30 million to add 36,000 square feet to its Laurens County manufacturing operations in Clinton, S.C., creating 98 jobs in the next five years. Major construction is slated for completion by the end of 2015. CCL Label, the subsidiary of CCL Industries that operates in Laurens County, produces film materials for global customers in the consumer packaging, health care, automotive and consumer durables markets, and provides extruded and laminated plastic tubes, folded instructional leaflets, and precision-printed and die-cut metal components with LED displays. The Laurens County facility manufactures highly engineered component products and printing for the electronics, automotive, consumer battery and beverage markets, according to a news release. The facility joined CCL Industries via the acquisition of two businesses of Avery Dennison—Avery Office & Consumer Products and Designed & Engineered Solutions—for $500 million in early 2013. Avery has been operating in Laurens for several years, according to S.C. Department of Commerce spokesman Allison Skipper. CCL Industries employs 10,400 people and operates 99 production facilities in 28 countries on five continents, with corporate offices in Toronto and Framingham, Mass.
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completing its $10 million building on its property in the White Horse community, where the company has operated for nearly 40 years. The three-story building is 37,000 square feet with a 160-employee capacity. The new building will accommodate AMECO’s growing employee population and space needs, said Tracey Cook, AMECO vice president of global operations, to a crowd of employees. The 18-month project was designed and engineered by Fluor Corp.—which owns AMECO—and includes collaboration spaces, conference rooms, a 30-person training center and an equipment monitoring center. AMECO’s campus is in Greenville’s lower west side in an area of old mill villages, where it has been for nearly 40 years. “It’s also about economic development,” said Fluor Chairman and CEO David Seaton. “I hope this is the cornerstone for development in this part of Greenville.” AMECO will still use the old 80,000-square-foot building, which is located on the same campus, but will shift the majority of the employees to the new space. Between 17 and 20 employees will remain in the old building, which includes warehouse space and service bays. AMECO is the tool and equipment unit of Irving, Texas-based Fluor Corp., a global company that employs several thousand in the Upstate. AMECO has offices in the Americas and South Africa, as well as project locations around the globe, but has operated from its Greenville locations for nearly 40 years. “This is one of our historic homes, and will always be one of our historic homes,” said Seaton.
Fluor subsidiary completes $10M building Greenville-based tool and equipment company AMECO announced
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