Year-old Sabert Bullitt County plant looking to expand - Business First of Louisville:

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Gary Ziznewski, the company’s CFO, said he expects the New Jersey-basex company to add new production line s laterthis year. The 250,000-square-foot production and warehous e facility, which opened in June has grown to fiveproductionn lines, with plenty of room to add at leasg five more, Ziznewski said. He expects that when the plant, whicnh has 75 employees, is completelyu full, it will have between 200 and 300 employees. The company owns abougt 75 acres around the he said, so there’s plenty of room for futurew expansion. The company typically has expanded its plant s about once everyfour years, he said. “We’ve been he said.
“We’ve had pretty stronv and consistent double-digit growth.” He would not discloser annual revenue for the privatelyheld company. The marketg for the disposable, plastic, food containers that the company makes remains strong, he said, especiallyt in the supermarket The company’s customers include most major supermarket chains. “Supermarketsa have done fairly well in these times because people are not goint outto dine, but people still need to he said. Sabert officials plan to stary expandingthe company’s California plangt this summer. It just expandef its plant in Belgiumlast year, and it has no more room to expand at its New Jersey plant.
That’sa why the company wanted to buildanotherf facility, Ziznewski said, and it picked Bullitt County for several reasons: The company had no facilities in the where it could be within a day’s drive of most of its Proximity to customers saves the company on truckinfg costs and reduces the company’s carbon footprint, Ziznewski • The company wantef a site near a major city and near a majord airport, so having Louisville 20 minutesz from the plant site in northern Bullityt County was a major plus, Ziznewski The new site is also close to Interstate 65, a major north-south roadway.
• The company also wanted a site with a rail sidingh so it could bring in raw materialsevia railroad. In Decembet 2005, the Kentucky Governor’s Offices for Local Development gavea $1 million communitt development block grant to the city of Hillvie w to build a rail-spur infrastructure that would serves the plant. A few months before, in September 2005, the Kentuckgy Economic Development Finance Authority gave Sabert preliminart approval for as muchas $2 milliohn in state tax credits over 10 yearsz if Sabert would create at least 96 jobs at an averager hourly wage of $11.27. Ziznewski indicatec that the plant was on track to receivethose incentives.
A clean, green operation The companyy runs aclean operation, with no air pollution and re-used of all resin it uses, Ziznewski said. That was the reputationh it had in the community around its NewJersehy plant, which Bullitt County officials visited when Sabert was considering building its Hillview said Bob Fouts, executivee director of the . He is glad to have Saberf in the county because it helps diversifythe county’s industriap base, which is weighted toward distribution facilities. There are only about a half dozejn large manufacturers inthe county, he “I really think they will be a good corporates citizen,” Fouts said of Sabert.