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A North Carolina-based manufacturer of construction, transportation
and industrial products intends to increase its presence in Utah.
The Carlisle Companies Inc., now in the midst of building
a new 250,000-square-foot roofing membrane production plant in Tooele for its
Carlisle SynTec subsidiary, said Thursday it plans to build a second plant
for another of its operating arms.
The second Tooele facility will be constructed for Carlisle's
Hunter Panels subsidiary, which manufactures roofing insulation used in
industrial and commercial buildings at four other locations in the United
States.
"Usually, the two companies [SynTec and Hunter
Panels] have similar-sized plants," said Mari Killian, a spokeswoman for
Carlisle SynTec.
Carlisle announced in August that
it intended to build a manufacturing facility in Tooele for Carlisle SynTec
that would employ about 70 people. Production equipment for that plant is now
being delivered, Killian said, indicating that the new facility will open in
October or early November.
While additional details of the new Hunter Panels plant
were unavailable from the company, a statement from Carlisle chief executive
Richmond McKinnish said the two facilities were paired up in Tooele to
"enhance both Hunter Panel's and Carlisle SynTec's service capabilities to
the Western United States and Canadian markets."
Like Carlisle SynTec, the new Hunter Panels plant will be
built in the Utah Industrial Depot, a 1,700-acre business park that once was
part of Tooele Army Depot, which was closed by the U.S. Army in 1995.
The Hunter Panels plant will solidify Carlisle's
position as one of the Tooele area's major employers.
Employees at the Carlisle SynTec facility are expected to
make approximately $13 an hour plus benefits, a pay scale that could be
duplicated at the new Hunter Panels plant.
Carlisle's announcement of a second
plant surprised Tooele City
economic development officials.
"They had talked early on about bringing in another
product line, but we hadn't heard if that meant they were going to expand
their SynTec plant or build another," said Brian Berendt, Tooele's
economic development director.
steve@sltrib.com
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