September 2015 - Middle Tennessee Industrial Development

Middle Tennessee Industrial
Development Association
Industry Leader
September 2015
MTIDA Holds 2015-2016 Annual Meeting
MTIDA held its Annual Meeting of
the Board of Directors on July 30,
2015 at the Embassy Suites in
Murfreesboro.
The newly elected Executive
Committee Members for 20152016 are President: Jimmy Gregory, Upper Cumberland Electric
Membership Coop., Vice President: Wes Kelley, Columbia Power & Water Systems, and Secretary-Treasurer: Chris Jones, Middle TN Electric Membership Corp.
Additional Executive Committee
Members are: Darrell Gillespie,
Dickson Electric Department;
Mark Kimbell, Gallatin Department
of Electricity; Jim Coode, Cumberland Electric Membership Corp.;
and Steven Moore, Tennessee
Valley Authority.
On July 31st, MTIDA held an
Economic Development Seminar
and Golf Tournament.
Approximately 130 community,
State, TVA, and electric distributors attended the seminar.
Mr. Chuck Shoopman, Assistant
Vice President, University of Tennessee, Institute for Public Service presented DRIVE! IMCP—
Winning the Global Jobs Competition; Attorneys J. Thomas Trent,
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Atwood Mobile Expands in Greenbrier
GREENBRIER, TN (May) Atwood Mobile celebrated the
company’s expansion at a ceremony in Greenbrier. Atwood
Mobile will invest $3.2 million to
expand their current operations
by building on to the existing
Tennessee Recreational Vehicle (RV) appliance manufacturing facility at 6320 Kelly Willis
Rd. in Greenbrier. This expansion will create 178 new jobs in
Robertson County over the next
three years.
The company plans to expand
both the manufacturing and
office space at the Greenbrier
facility, allowing Atwood to
meet growing demand for its
products via enhanced operations technologies, capacity
and management expertise in
closer proximity to Atwood’s
Midwest concentrated RV base.
In addition to other enhancements, with this investment, the
Greenbrier facility will accommodate the production of RV
Atwood Mobile, a subsidiary of furnace and gas detection product lines currently produced at
Dometic Group, is a leading
supplier of appliances, chassis Atwood’s Salt Lake City, Utah
and seating hardware, architec- facility.
tural products and gas detecWork on the Greenbrier expantors, primarily to the North
sion and upgrades began earliAmerican RV and specialty
er this year and are expected to
vehicle markets.
wrap up in late August 2015.
CHS Expands Footprint in Nashville
NASHVILLE, TN (May) Community Health Systems announced the company will invest $66 million to expand its
current operations in Tennessee by constructing a new
Shared Services Center in
Nashville. Through this expansion, the national healthcare
company will create 1,500 new
jobs over the next five years.
Community Health Systems,
Inc. is one of the nation’s leading operators of general acute
care hospitals and one of Tennessee’s largest employers.
The organization’s affiliates
own, operate or lease 198
hospitals in 29 states with approximately 30,000 licensed
beds.
As Community Health Systems
celebrates its 30th anniversary,
it is expanding its physical footprint by constructing a new office
building near Cane Ridge Road
in southeastern Davidson County. The six-story, 240,000 square
foot CHS Shared Services Center will perform some business
and administrative functions that
support the organization’s affiliated hospitals, enhancing operations efficiencies and standardizing processes. Source: TN ECD
Source: TN ECD
Proper Polymers Takes a Shot in Pulaski
PULASKI, TN (May) Automotive
supplier Proper Polymers, a division of Proper Group International, will build a new injection molding plant in Pulaski. The company
announced it will invest $13.1
The plant will be its first in the
state and third overall. Proper
Polymers also has operations in
Warren, Mich., and Anderson,
S.C.
The 44,000-square-foot facility will
manufacture two-shot and threeshot components for automotive
and non-automotive lighting, along
with other automotive exterior trim
and support parts.
The plant is expected to be in
operation in the third quarter of
this year. Initially, Proper Polymers plans to run nine Krauss
Maffei presses in the facility, ranging from 100 tons to 1,500 tons of
clamping force. That number will
grow to as many as 15 machines
after three years.
The plant will employ about 50 at
opening, and is projected to employ 175 in the next three years.
Proper Polymers is headquartered
in Warren. Mich.
For more than 40 years, Proper
Group International has developed a reputation as a “world
class” manufacturer in the plastics
industry. In 1996, Proper expanded its support into the Southeast
region of the United States.
Initially, the facility located in Anderson, South Carolina was set up
to support Proper Tooling’s expanding business with BMW, Mercedes, and other manufacturers in
the Southeast. In 2002, Proper
expanded it’s line of service to
include production injection molding. This was the beginning of
Proper Polymers.Source: Plastic News and
Properpolymers.com
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Great Lakes Cheese Grand Opening
MANCHESTER, TN (May) Great
Lakes Cheese celebrated the
grand opening of its new Manchester facility. In October 2013,
the company announced it would
invest $100 million to open its first
Southeast manufacturing facility at
the Manchester Industrial Park,
creating 200 new jobs.
Great Lakes Cheese
supplies cheese for
grocery stores, delis
and other food service
operations around the
United States. The
Manchester plant will
be the fourth biggest
among the company’s nine plants.
The 330,000 square foot cheese
processing plant will serve as a
packaging plant where cheese will
be cut, sliced, shredded and packaged for shipment throughout the
Southeast.
Employment at the Manchester
facility is anticipated to reach 200
people by 2019. Source: TN ECD
Ficosa North America Expands Its Presence
COOKEVILLE, TN (May) Ficosa
North America officials announced
the company will expand its Tennessee presence by building a new state
-of-the-art facility at the Highlands
Business Park in Cookeville. The
automotive supplier will invest $58
million in the Putnam County facility
and create 550 jobs.
Ficosa’s existing Tennessee plant in
nearby Crossville produces mirror
assemblies for Nissan, Ford,
Volkswagen, Fiat Chrysler, General
Motors and other auto manufacturers. The company will transfer the
existing jobs to the new Cookeville
facility, which will increase production capacity and allow components
currently made in China and Mexico
to be made in Tennessee.
The pre-production of the new facility
is already underway and Ficosa will
begin limited production from the
new factory in mid-2016. Source: TN ECD
COOKEVILLE, TN (June) Ficosa celebrated the groundbreaking of its new
facility in Cookeville. TNECD Assistant
Commissioner of Business Development, Allen Borden, joined company
officials from Spain, as well as other
local and regional officials for the
event. Source: The Tennessean
Caleres Stepping Up
LEBANON, TN (June) Caleres is expanding its Wilson County facility. The
global footwear company announced it
will make a substantial investment to
expand its distribution facility in Lebanon, creating more than 40 new jobs.
Caleres currently employs around 240
people at its Lebanon facility. The expansion is scheduled to begin in June
2015 and expected to be completed by
the fourth quarter of 2016. The company plans to begin hiring in the fourth
quarter of 2016. Source: TN ECD
TCAT Celebrates Ribbon Cutting
LEBANON, TN (June) After several years of
planning and repairing, the Tennessee College of
Applied Technology (TCAT) location in Lebanon,
celebrated its ribbon cutting. The center also
houses the career center of Nashville Career Advancement Center.
The College will be run as a remote
location of the Hartsville TCAT. This
TCAT facility currently offer classes in
Practical Nursing and Computer Information Technology and will add an
Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics
Technician program in September
2015. Source: TN ECD
Pictured (L-R): Paul Haynes, Executive Director, Middle Tennessee
Workforce Investment Board; Melanie Minter, President Lebanon Chamber; Carol Puryear, Tennessee Board of Regents; Randall Hutto, Wilson
County Mayor; Philip Craighead, Lebanon Mayor; Mae Perry, Director of
TCAT Hartsville/Lebanon; GC Hixson, Executive Director Wilson County
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TWB Company Steels Nashville
NASHVILLE (June) TWB
Company, LLC officials announced the company will expand its current operations in
Tennessee by locating a new
manufacturing facility in Nashville. TWB will invest $18 million in this new operation, creating 41 new jobs in Davidson
County.
TWB will operate out of a
120,000 square foot facility at
6050 Dana Way, the company’s second location in Tennessee. The company also has
operations in Smyrna.
This location will manufacture
tailor welded blanks, which are
individual steel sheets of different
thickness, strength and coating
joined together by laser welding
and then stamped into automotive body panels.
The new facility will include next
generation fiber lasers and curvilinear welding technology, expanding TWB’s 2D welding capabilities and its ability to reduce
weight and increase strength of
more parts of a vehicle. The use
of tailor welded blanks in vehicles
has grown in recent years as
automakers use light weighting to
improve the fuel economy of ve-
2015 Gold Shovel Award
NASHVILLE, TN (June) Tennessee has once again ranked
among the best states in economic development by Area
Development, a leading publication focused on site selection
and facility planning. Tennessee, along with Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas,
were named recipients of the
magazine’s 2015 Gold Shovel
Awards in recognition of projects undertaken in 2014 which
created a significant number of
high-value-added new jobs as
well as investment. The Volunteer State last received Gold
Shovel awards in 2012 and
2009 and Silver Shovel awards
in 2011 and 2010.
Area Development’s annual
shovel awards recognize state
economic development agencies that drive significant job
creation through innovative
policies, infrastructure improvements, processes and promotions that attract new employers
as well as investments in ex-
panded facilities. The Gold
Shovels are presented annually to the states that have
achieved the most success in
terms of new job creation and
economic impact.
A report on the 2015 Shovel
Award winners is published in
the Q2/2015 issue of Area
Development and posted
online at
www.areadevelopment.com/s
hovels. Source: TN ECD
hicles in order to meet new federal government standards.
Worthington’s Steel Processing
business segment.
Formed in 1992, TWB Company,
LLC is a joint venture of
Worthington Industries and Wuhan Iron and Steel Company.
Worthington Industries holds
majority ownership, 55 percent,
of the joint venture and financial
results are consolidated within
The Nashville facility will initially
serve General Motors, Nissan
and several Tier 1 automotive
suppliers. Production is expected
to begin in October 2015. Source:
TN ECD
Sweet Deal for Lebanon
LEBANON, TN
(June) Maplehurst
Bakeries, LLC, a
division of Weston
Foods, announced
the company will
invest $102.8 million to build and
equip a new
173,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Lebanon.
The facility will be located at Central Pike and 840 and
create up to 147 new jobs in Wilson County.
Founded in 1967, Maplehurst Bakeries produces frozen bakery products, including donuts, pies, cupcakes, cake, rye bread, sweet goods and gluten-free
baked goods, for in-store and food service bakeries.
With products sold in North American grocery retailers, supermarket chains and food service outlets, the
company currently operates facilities in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, New Hampshire, New York, Tennessee
and Washington. Maplehurst Bakeries currently has
more than 1,100 employees across the United States,
including more than 105 full-time employees in Tennessee.
The new facility, which is expected to be operational in
the first quarter of 2016, will house warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing operations for its donut
production to service customers across North America
and around the world. Source: TN ECD
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UBS Invests in Williamson County
FRANKLIN, TN (June) UBS
officials announced the company
will expand its current operations
in Middle Tennessee by opening
a new office in Williamson County at One Franklin Park. UBS will
invest $11.2 million to outfit the
space, which will accommodate
the growth of the UBS Business
Solution Center, as well as, a
satellite branch office for Wealth
Management Americas financial
advisors, creating over 350 new
jobs over the next several years.
The UBS Nashville Business
Solution Center offers expanded
business services in support of
their wealth management and
investment banking divisions.
The Franklin office is creating
new positions beyond the 1,000
jobs UBS announced in August
2013.
UBS is committed to providing
private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as
retail clients in Switzerland, with
superior financial advice and
In August 2013, UBS announced solutions while generating ata $36.5 million investment to
tractive and sustainable returns
establish a shared services cen- for shareholders. Its strategy
ter in Nashville, creating 1,000
centers on its Wealth Managenew jobs over the next five
ment and Wealth Management
years.
Americas businesses
and its leading universal bank in Switzerland, complemented by its Global Asset
Management business and its Investment Bank. These
businesses share
three key characteristics: they benefit from a strong
competitive position in their targeted markets, are capital-efficient,
and offer a superior structural
growth and profitability outlook.
UBS's strategy builds on the
strengths of all of its businesses
and focuses its efforts on areas in
which it excels, while seeking to
capitalize on the compelling
growth prospects in the businesses and regions in which
it operates. Capital strength
is the foundation of its success.Source: TN ECD
DE-STA-CO Rotates, Pivots, and Positions In Wilson County
MT. JULIET, TN (July) DE-STA-CO officials announced the company will consolidate several of its U.S. manufacturing operations by locating a new facility in Mount
Juliet in an effort to better serve its North
American and global customers. The Middle Tennessee facility, located at 210 Mundy Memorial Drive, will integrate product
offerings and improve the company’s supply chain.
DE-STA-CO specializes in the innovation,
design and manufacture of clamping and
robotic tooling solutions for workholding
and automation needs. The project will
result in the creation of 245 new jobs in
Wilson County.
The consolidation process will be completed in multiple phases over the next 18 to
24 months. It will include phasing out manufacturing activities at its Auburn Hills and
Charlevoix, MI and Wheeling, IL facilities.
DE-STA-CO will maintain its customer service and engineering presence in Auburn
Hills and Wheeling, as well as its Regional
Americas and corporate offices in Auburn
Hills, and its remote handling equipment
business in Red Wing, MN.
Celebrating 100 years of innovation in
2015, DE-STA-CO is a global workholding
and automation company that provides
productivity solutions to the manufacturing
industry.
Quality and service have helped DE-STACO evolve from a single stamping shop
into a leader in the design and manufacture
of cost-reducing, flexible products. With
operations in the United States, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Thailand and the United Kingdom.
DE-STA-CO offers standard and custom
solutions for industrial customers around
the world. DE-STA-CO is part of the Engineered Systems segment of Dover Corporation, a multi-billion dollar diversified global manufacturer. Source: TN ECD
La Vergne Is A Good Fit for American Standard
LA VERGNE, TN (July) American Standard Brands will invest $22 million to establish a new manufacturing and distribution facility in
Davidson County. Through this investment, the leading North American manufacturer of stylish, high-performance bathroom and
kitchen fixtures and fittings, will create approximately 600 new jobs in La Vergne. This is the first new U.S.-based manufacturing facility for American Standard Brands in more than 25 years.
This new facility in Davidson County will allow American Standard Brands to expand its operational footprint and increase efficiency
through enhanced supply chain connectivity. The company plans to begin operations in the fourth quarter of this year. Source: TN ECD
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M-TEK Breaks Ground in Murfreesboro
MURFREESBORO, TN (July) M-TEK celebrated the groundbreaking of its new facility at 1225 Garrison Drive in Murfreesboro.
In December 2014, M-TEK announced the company would invest
$13.4 million to build a new headquarters in Rutherford County that
will support operations in the United States, Mexico and Canada,
employing approximately 250 people.
The company's new headquarters will be on 10 acres in the Gateway area on the corner of Garrison Drive and Gateway Boulevard.
The 63,800-square-foot facility is expected to be completed in August 2016.
M-TEK, a subsidiary of Kasai Kogoyo Ltd., manufactures interior
automotive parts like door panels, rear shelf, trunk trim, dash insulators and plastic injection trim for several North American automotive assembly plants, including Nissan's Smyrna plant.
M-TEK President Masaki Sugisawa said the headquarters will be
home to the automotive supplier's North American corporate leadership, engineering department and research and development
department.Source: Daily News Journal
Amedisys Opens Executive Offices
NASHVILLE, TN (July) Amedisys officials announced the company will open a new executive office in Nashville. Amedisys, a
leading health care at home company, will invest $2.5 million and
create approximately 120 new jobs in Davidson County over the
next five years.
The majority of Amedisys’ CEO Executive Team will be based in
the Nashville office, which will be located in downtown Nashville at
Cummins Station. This strategically located office will
help Amedisys build pivotal relationships with important industry
leaders and analysts and attract strong talent from the healthcare
industry, including Nashville’s robust talent pool of health services
professionals.
Amedisys’ care teams deliver personalized home health and hospice care to approximately 355,000 patients each year. The company is also a post-acute care partner to more than 2,233 hospitals
and 61,900 physicians across the country.
The Nashville office will open in July, with the goal of having the
majority of the CEO Executive Team in place by October. Other
senior leadership roles and a few other corporate team members
will transition to Nashville by the end of 2015. Source: TN ECD
(L to R) Bobby Locke, executive VP for M-TEK; Masaki Sugisawa, president and CEO
of M-TEK; Paul Latture, president of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce;
Masami Kinefuchi, consul general of Japan; Kuniyuki Watanabe, chairman and CEO
of Kasai; Shane McFarland, Murfreesboro mayor; Ernest Burgess, Rutherford County
mayor; Allen Borden, assistant commissioner for Tenanessee Department of Economic & Community Development; Michael Gaines, division manager of Purchasing for
Honda of Alabama; and Rebecca Vest, vice president of Nissan North America.
Tier IV Data Center in McMinnville
McMINNVILLE, TN (July) Litewire, LLC, a new IT services company, will open a new Tier IV data center in Warren County. The facility will be located in the former A.O. Smith Building in McMinnville,
creating 66 new jobs.
Litewire offers managed enterprise IT services, data center colocation, private and shared cloud services, disaster recovery service
strategies, network management and information security and training.
The Litewire infrastructure is completely modular, offering an unprecedented ability to scale based off of client density and demand. This
will allow any size company, small business or large-scale corporation, to exist in the Litewire environment efficiently and affordably. The
Litewire facility is also unique, because it houses the City of McMinnville Police Headquarters making it the only data center in the world
with a police station "onsite."
McMinnville Electric System has partnered with Litewire to provide
automated switching between two separate substations and has provided dual feeds for utility power. “Supplying reliable power to a data
center is a daunting responsibility that we at McMinnville Electric System take seriously,” McMinnville Electric System CEO Rodney Boyd
said. “That is why we are pleased that Litewire has chosen McMinnville, Tennessee as the location of choice for their new state-of-theart facility.”
At 285,000 square feet, Litewire’s Warren County facility is the largest potential data center footprint under one roof in the Southeast.
Phase 1 construction is now complete and Litewire is fully functional
with an initial footprint of 35,000 square feet. Source: TN ECD
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Servpro Launches Big Local Expansion
GALLATIN, TN (August) Servpro Industries, Inc. will invest
$738,000 to expand its current operations in Gallatin, creating 204 new jobs in Sumner County.
Servpro currently employs more than 430 people in Sumner
County, making it the eighth-largest employer in the county.
Servpro oversees a network of more than 1,700 franchisees
specializing in fire and water cleanup and repair.
The Gallatin-based franchise company is expanding into
currently unused space at their corporate headquarters,
which underwent an expansion in 2014 and boasts nearly
200,000 square feet and an additional 150 offices. In utilizing this space, Servpro Industries, Inc. will train franchisees
and develop and distribute supplies. Source: TN ECD
Ryder to Add 600 Jobs in $16.5 Expansion
SPRING HILL, TN (August) Ryder Supply Chain Solutions announced it will be investing $16.5 million to expand its presence in
Spring Hill, a move that is slated to add more than 600 new jobs.
The company will enlarge its transportation, kitting and assembly
operations by doubling its warehousing space from 300,000 square
feet to 600,000. The transportation, logistics and supply company
is set to increase employment from 200 workers to more than 800
in the next five years.
Ryder will be hiring for mobile equipment operators, kitting and
sequencing operators and shuttle drivers. The facility is located on
the General Motors campus off U.S. Highway 31.
TriWest Help Veterans
NASHVILLE, TN (August) TriWest Healthcare Alliance
will open a facility in Davidson County to serve the community health care needs of our nations’ veterans. TriWest will invest $1.2 million to open the Nashville Operations Center, creating 250 new jobs.
As a partner to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA),
TriWest administers the VA’s Patient-Centered Community Care (PC3) program and the Veterans Choice Program (VCP). The Nashville Operations Center will allow
the company to keep up with a significant increase in
health care requests as more Veterans become eligible
for the VCP.
TriWest is a proud supporter of the Veterans Economic
Communities Initiative (VECI). The VECI aims to increase the number of education and employment opportunities for veterans and their families through a network
of support at the community level.Source: TN ECD
Ryder takes individual auto parts that will go on GM vehicles, puts
them into kits and sequences to help enhance the timeline for making vehicles via line production. “This is a tremendous amount of
new jobs coming to Spring Hill and Maury County,” Maury County
Chamber and Economic Alliance President Wil Evans said. “While
we did see many announcements last year, within the last 18
months, this is by far the largest single number of jobs announced
by one project publicly.”
In 2013, GM officials announced plans to “create or retain” 1,800
jobs in Spring Hill as part of a $350 investment to bring in two new
vehicles. The next-generation Cadillac SRX crossover is one, but
the other has not been named.
Ryder is a commercial fleet management, transportation and supply chain solutions company with operations in the U.S., Canada,
Mexico and the U.K., as well as parts of Asia. It manages transportation and logistics functions for more than 50,000 customers.
Source: Columbia Daily Herald
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SureCan Fuels 101 New Jobs in Wilson County
Middle Tennessee Industrial
Development Association
2015-2016 Executive Committee
PRESIDENT
Jimmy Gregory, General Manger
Upper Cumberland EMC
P.O. Box 159
South Carthage, TN 37030
LEBANON, TN (August) SureCan Incorporated officials announced the company will establish a new manufacturing facility in Wilson County. SureCan,
which manufacturers an innovative gas can, will invest $15.5 million to begin
new operations in Lebanon, creating 101 new jobs.
The company plans to manufacture and assemble fuel cans at the Lebanon
location, 800 Maddox Simpson Parkway, allowing them to better serve market
demand for their product in the Southeast and Northeast.
SureCan features patented spill-proof technology and a rotating nozzle and
thumb-release trigger, allowing gravity to dispense fuel from the bottom of the
can. It also self-ventilates, has a comfortable grip and a durable design. SureCan allows the user to direct how and where the gas will dispense, making it the
easiest, safest and greenest fuel can in the world.Source: TN ECD
Multimatic Speeds Into Marshall County
LEWISBURG, TN (August) Canadian
based, Multimatic Tennessee LLC will
locate a new automotive manufacturing
operations in Lewisburg. Multimatic will
invest more than $20 million in building
upgrades and new robotic welding infrastructure and create 181 new jobs in Marshall County.
Multimatic Tennessee LLC said it
will upgrade its facility and add new
robotic welding infrastructure for its
engineering and manufacturing of
automotive body hardware, suspension systems and body structures,
as well as the design and development of lightweight composite automotive systems. Multimatic also delivers niche vehicle design, development and production for road and race
car applications.
Multimatic is headquartered in Toronto,
Canada, and has manufacturing operations and engineering facilities in North
America, Europe and Asia, with alliance partner relationships in other automotive markets.Source: Times Free Press
VICE PRESIDENT
R. Wes Kelley, Executive Director
Columbia Power & Water Systems
P.O. Box 379
Columbia, TN 38401
SECRETARY/TREASURER
Chris Jones, President
Middle TN Electric Mem. Corp.
555 New Salem Road
Murfreesboro, TN 37129
MEMBERS
Darrell Gillespie, General Manager
Dickson Electric System
P.O. Box 627
Dickson, TN 37056
Mark Kimbell, General Manager
Gallatin Dept. of Electricity
P.O. Box 1555
Gallatin, TN 37066
Jim Coode, General Manager
Cumberland Electric Mem. Corp.
P.O. Box 3300
Clarksville, TN 37043
Steven Moore
Senior Program Manager
Strategic Initiatives
Tennessee Valley Authority
P.O. Box 292409,
Nashville, TN 37229-2409
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Executive Assistant: Dawn E. Olson
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