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APEL Extrusion moves to Coburg, Canada
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APEL Extrusions, which is based in Calgary, Canada, plans to expand its West Coast operations by moving them to Coburg from Springfield in July 2014, President Mike Flynn said this week.
To serve a growing number of West Coast customers, APEL plans in the next two years to add 25 to 30 people to its 55-person Lane County work force and to spend $12 million on its move. Part of that investment is in renovating and equipping a 112,000-square-foot building at what is now called CoburgNorth.
CoburgNorth is the name developer Steve Lee gave the 850,000-square-foot complex of industrial and office buildings on 69 acres at the Interstate 5/Coburg interchange.
In addition to APEL, the reborn industrial park also has attracted other companies, including JAJ Enterprises, the parent company for various auto and coach glass companies, and Hamilton Construction, which plans to move its administrative and estimating operations to Coburg from Springfield in July.
APEL has been operating at 5280 High Banks Road in east Springfield since July 2010, when it bought the West Coast assets of Postle Aluminum Co., an aluminum distributor based in Elkhart, Ind.
The Springfield operation has been a good addition for the Canadian company, Flynn said.
The overall economy is picking up, and APEL is gaining new customers. A number of aluminum companies, especially in California, closed when the recession hit, Flynn said. And a recent trade ruling placed duties on Chinese metal coming to the market, making the price of US made products more competitive.
By July, he plans to order a $7 million, 3,000-metric-ton press, one that can extrude aluminum up to 9 inches in diameter. APEL’s existing 2,000-metric-ton press at its Springfield plant has a 7-inch-diameter limit.
When it’s delivered in July 2014, the new press will be installed at CoburgNorth, and APEL will move its employees and equipment from the Springfield site. That property is owned by Major Defoe, who originally built the facility to manufacture boats.
Within a year of installing the new press, APEL’s Oregon site would expand from about 55 workers to 75 or 80, Flynn said. The company is working with county and state economic development officials on financial incentives, but none has been confirmed, Flynn said.
To serve a growing number of West Coast customers, APEL plans in the next two years to add 25 to 30 people to its 55-person Lane County work force and to spend $12 million on its move. Part of that investment is in renovating and equipping a 112,000-square-foot building at what is now called CoburgNorth.
CoburgNorth is the name developer Steve Lee gave the 850,000-square-foot complex of industrial and office buildings on 69 acres at the Interstate 5/Coburg interchange.
In addition to APEL, the reborn industrial park also has attracted other companies, including JAJ Enterprises, the parent company for various auto and coach glass companies, and Hamilton Construction, which plans to move its administrative and estimating operations to Coburg from Springfield in July.
APEL has been operating at 5280 High Banks Road in east Springfield since July 2010, when it bought the West Coast assets of Postle Aluminum Co., an aluminum distributor based in Elkhart, Ind.
The Springfield operation has been a good addition for the Canadian company, Flynn said.
The overall economy is picking up, and APEL is gaining new customers. A number of aluminum companies, especially in California, closed when the recession hit, Flynn said. And a recent trade ruling placed duties on Chinese metal coming to the market, making the price of US made products more competitive.
By July, he plans to order a $7 million, 3,000-metric-ton press, one that can extrude aluminum up to 9 inches in diameter. APEL’s existing 2,000-metric-ton press at its Springfield plant has a 7-inch-diameter limit.
When it’s delivered in July 2014, the new press will be installed at CoburgNorth, and APEL will move its employees and equipment from the Springfield site. That property is owned by Major Defoe, who originally built the facility to manufacture boats.
Within a year of installing the new press, APEL’s Oregon site would expand from about 55 workers to 75 or 80, Flynn said. The company is working with county and state economic development officials on financial incentives, but none has been confirmed, Flynn said.
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