Construction Begins for Conveyor Belt Manufacturing Expansion in Ohio

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). The world’s largest manufacturer of conveyor belting, Fenner Dunlop North America (Charlotte, North Carolina), recently began construction on a $38 million expansion of its Port Clinton, Ohio facility.

Site preparation started in the middle of April 2007 for a 75,000 square foot building expansion. Building construction has just begun and overall completion is slated for late spring/early summer of 2008. The expansion will allow the company to produce steel cord belting products and piled rubber conveyor belting plus create at least 75 new jobs.

Poggemeyer Design Group located in Bowling Green, Ohio was awarded the architectural design contract for the expansion and Mosser Construction Incorporated located in Fremont, Ohio was awarded the general construction contract.

Fenner PLC, was founded in 1861 and is headquartered in the United Kingdom. It currently has twelve manufacturing facilities located in Europe, India, China, South Africa, Australia and the United States, with products ranging from pile rubber, PVC solid woven and steel cord belting. Fenner Dunlop America manufactures the most comprehensive range of conveyor belting for many industries like aggregates, baggage handling, forest products, grain, mining, power generation and the tunneling industries. The company manufactures over five million meters of conveyor belting per year.

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