Thursday, February 17, 2011

Lafayette lands plant, up to 200 jobs



A fast-moving chain of events has landed an economic development plum -- and the promise of new jobs and investment -- on the south side of Lafayette.



Nanshan America Co. Ltd., a Chicago-based firm with a parent company in China, announced Wednesday that it will build an aluminum extrusion plant on land in the Park 350 industrial park near Veterans Memorial Parkway and U.S. 52.

"We expect over 200 new jobs in the next two to three years," said Nanshan America president Lijun Du during an invitation-only announcement at Purdue University that attracted 250 people.

"We've been studying the U.S. market, the largest in the world, for years. To establish this facility in the Midwest, with the best equipment from Europe and America and an elite American management team and work force, will make us among the leaders in the global aluminum industry."

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The new jobs at the facility, which will be named Nanshan America Advanced Aluminum Technologies, will pay an average of $15.27 an hour, plus benefits. WorkOne West Central Indiana and its REACH Center in Lafayette will provide recruiting, interviewing, candidate and position assessments.

Du, a 2004 Purdue graduate, initially met with Gov. Mitch Daniels in Shanghai during an Indiana trade mission to Asia last November. Those talks quickly escalated, public and private partners got involved on the local scene, and the result was Wednesday's announcement.

"This is one of the great and growing companies on this earth," Daniels said. "It's exactly the kind of growth every state wants. It's a great achievement for all of Indiana."

The plant will make aluminum extrusions that are used in the mass transportation, automotive, distribution, industrial and electrical industries. It also will make train-body material for the growing high-speed rail industry.

The company is not expected to be in direct competition with Alcoa Lafayette Operations, an existing hard-alloy extrusion plant that has about 700 employees.

"We're very pleased to welcome a new manufacturer in our community. We'll help them any way we can," said Alcoa human resource manager Pamela Whitton. "We make different alloys. The products are different. In Lafayette, we have such a good strong supportive community for manufacturing. We're pleased."



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NEHA JAIN

      

   

     



            
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