South Carolina Rug Manufacturer Under Way with Expansion

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Textile manufacturer Orion Rugs Incorporated (Anderson, South Carolina) is under way with a $10 million expansion on the company's man-made-fiber woven-rug manufacturing plant in Anderson, South Carolina.

Site preparations and grading are currently under way for construction on a 60,000-square-foot building addition with a weaving room to the existing 500,000-square-foot plant. The project has an estimated cost of $10 million and will create 12 new jobs by the end of this year, and 50 more jobs over the next three years. Site preparation started in July, and overall completion on the new expansion is anticipated by the summer of 2011. This is the company's only location.

Fontaine Construction Company (Anderson) was selected to provide general construction services for the expansion.

Orion Rugs Incorporated, founded in 1979, is a privately held company that manufactures machine-woven rugs. The company's products and services include yarn extrusion, weaving, finishing, packaging, warehousing and distribution.

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