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-base company to add new production lines later this The 250,000-square-foot production and warehouse facility, which openedd in June 2008, has grown to five productionj lines, with plenty of room to add at least five Ziznewski said. He expectsx that when the plant, which has 75 is completely full, it will have betweenj 200 and300 employees. The company owns about 75 acres aroundthe plant, he so there’s plenty of room for futurw expansion. The company typically has expanded its plantd about once everyfour years, he said. “We’vse been fortunate,” he said.
“We’vwe had pretty strong and consistent double-digit He would not disclose annual revenue for the privatelyhheld company. The market for the disposable, plastic, food container that the company makesremains strong, he said, especially in the supermarker industry. The company’s customers include most majortsupermarket chains. “Supermarkets have done fairly well in thesw times because people are not goiny outto dine, but people still need to he said. Sabert officials plan to start expandingthe company’x California plant this summer. It just expanded its plant in Belgiumlast year, and it has no more room to expanr at its New Jersey plant.
That’sd why the company wanted to buildanother facility, Ziznewsko said, and it picked Bullitt County for several reasons: The company had no facilities in the Midwest, whers it could be within a day’s drive of most of its Proximity to customers saves the companyu on trucking costs and reduces the company’s carbon footprint, Ziznewski • The company wanted a site near a majore city and near a major airport, so having Louisville 20 minutes from the plany site in northern Bullitt County was a majodr plus, Ziznewski said. The new site is also close to Interstat 65, a major north-soutj roadway.
• The company also wanted a site with a rail sidingf so it could bring in raw materialwsvia railroad. In December the Kentucky Governor’s Office for Local Development gavea $1 million community development blocko grant to the city of Hillvie w to build a rail-spure infrastructure that would serve the plant. A few months in September 2005, the Kentucky Economix Development Finance Authority gave Sabert preliminary approvaol for as muchas $2 millioh in state tax creditw over 10 years if Sabert woulcd create at least 96 jobs at an average hourly wage of Ziznewski indicated that the plant was on track to receive thosw incentives.
A clean, green operation The company runs aclean operation, with no air pollution and re-usw of all resin it uses, Ziznewski said. That was the reputatioj it had in the community arouned its NewJersey plant, which Bullitt County officiale visited when Sabert was considering building its Hillviee factory, said Bob Fouts, executive director of the . He is glad to have Saberf in the county because it helpa diversifythe county’s industrial base, whicj is weighted toward distribution facilities. There are only about a half dozebn large manufacturers inthe county, he said. “k really think they will be a goodcorporat citizen,” Fouts said of Sabert.