Consolidated METCO Underway with $13 Million Expansion in North Carolina

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Consolidated Metco Incorporated (CONMET) (Portland, Oregon), a Subsidiary of Amstead Industries Incorporated, is currently underway on a $13 Million expansion of their Bryson City, North Carolina Plant (Plant 1050871).

The plant is located at 1821 Highway 19 South in Swain County. Construction on the $13 million expansion started in the fall 2003 and is expected to be complete by June 2004. The expansion includes construction of a 95,000 square-foot building and the addition of fifteen new plastic injection molding machines, creating approximately 70 new jobs.

Lockwood Greene headquartered in Spartanburg, South Carolina was awarded the engineering and construction contract for the expansion.

The Bryson City plant opened in 1995 with fifteen plastic injection molding machines employing 125. By January 2003, an additional nine machines were added along with 256 workers. With the completion of this $13 Million expansion, 70 new jobs will be created over the next six to nine months bringing the total employment to 326.

Consolidated Metco, Incorporated, a Portland, Oregon based manufacturing company, currently has Plastic Division plants in Bryson City, North Carolina (Plant 1050871) and Cashiers, North Carolina (Plant 1050881). The Consolidated Metco facilities are injection-molding operations that supply interior components to the heavy truck market. The primary parts supplied are for plastic dashboards and instrument panels, metal hubs, drums, castings and sleeper compartments. Their annual sales totaled $243 million in 2002. The company employs more than 250 people in Western North Carolina and supplies heavy truck manufacturing components in the region. Their suppliers located in close proximity to the plant include Volvo, Peterbilt, and Freightliner, which was one reason why the company decided to expand in Bryson City. More than 80 percent of the company's products go to the heavy-market industry.