Hardide Coatings, the United Kingdom-based provider of advanced surface coating technology, announced investment in a new Virginia manufacturing plant worth circa USD 7M. The investment will see Hardide Coatings expand provision of its range of specialist nanostructured coatings throughout North America.
The 26,000ft2 facility in Martinsville, Henry County, is planned to be operational in the fourth quarter of 2015 with up to 29 jobs being created in the first three years. The new facility will service existing and new customers in the oil and gas, aerospace, flow control and advanced engineering markets. Located within an Enterprise Zone in a state where more than 230 aerospace companies, the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing and two Rolls-Royce facilities are based, it will house new chemical vapour deposition (CVD) coating reactors as well as the latest pre-treatment, inspection, quality assurance and finishing equipment.
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Fit-out of the building and local recruitment is already underway. The new personnel will receive full training in the Hardide Coatings’ process at the company’s UK headquarters before the North American facility becomes operational later this year.
