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TRELLEBORG SEALING SOLUTIONS EXPANDS IN FORT WAYNE
Company will add 46 new jobs, invest $1.8 million

 
(Aug. 10, 2010)  Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has announced it is expanding its logistics operations in Fort Wayne and will move its Supply Chaim Management Americas to 5503 Distribution Drive.  The company currently has three locations in northeast Indiana and employes more than 300.  As a result of the expansion, Trelleborg will add up to 46 new jobs and invest $1.8 million by 2013.  The project will begin in August and is scheduled for completion in October. For more information, click TRELLEBORG.

Source: Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance

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LINCOLN PRINTING: WILL INVEST NEARLY $500,000 AND CREATE TWO NEW POSITIONS

(June 22, 2010)  Lincoln Printing, a Consolidated Graphics (CSX) company, has announced that it will invest in new equipment for its 3310 Congressional Parkway location.  The printing company will invest approximately $487,702 and bring on two additional employees as a result of the project.  The equipment is expected to be installed July 2010.

                                               Source: Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance

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MURPAC SERVICES TO LOCATE IN FORT WAYNE
Company will lease space in Coastal Commerce facility; add 30 jobs

(April 28, 2010) Murpace Services Inc. announced today that is is locating operations in Fort Wayne, Indiana.   The compandy, which refurbishes reels for wire, will lease space at the Costal Commerce site, located at 3405 Meyer Road.  Murpac Services is investing $500,000 in the project and will add 30 jobs.  Project completion is scheduled for May 2010. More information at MURPAC.

                                    Source:  Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance

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HYPERSONIC TECHNOLOGIES MOVES HEADQUARTERS
Engineering & Tech Company expands to Dupont Circle Drive: will add 18 jobs

(March 23, 2010) Hypersonic Technologies has announced that it has expanded and moved its headquarters from 3400 East Coliseum Blvd to 9933 Dupont Circle Drive West, located in northeast Fort Wayne.  The company, which acquired Inertia North America and Voom Software, will also add 18 new positions by 2011.  Hypersonic will continue to serve Voom and Inertia's existing clients while adding staff in order to focus on growth opportunties.  More information is at HYPERSONIC.

                                                          Source:  Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance

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HERITAGE FOOD SERVICE TO EXPAND IN FORT WAYNE
Commercial kitchen equipment distributor will add 150 jobs

(February 24, 2010)  Heritage Food Service Equipment has announced that it will expand its Fort Wayne facility located at 5130 Executive Boulevard.  The company will invest $1.5 million and add 150 new positions.  Heritage Food Service currently has 203 workers at its Fort Wayne location.   The project is scheduled for completion in 2013.  For more information, click HERITAGE.

                                            Source:  Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance

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The additions are good news for a Fort Wayne economy that saw an uptick in unemployment to 10.6 percent in December from 10 percent in November, according to figures released last week by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.  Last year, Edy’s said it was in the final phases of a $29.5 million expansion at the Fort Wayne plant to accommodate a production line to make Nestlé Drumsticks. In 2008, Edy’s added 114 workers at the plant in a first-wave of hiring to come from the expansion.  The plant also makes all the Nestlé lil Drums in the United States, according to news reports.  Also last year, Edy’s closed a plant in Houston and shifted production to the Fort Wayne plant and to others in Laurel, Md.; Bakersfield, Calif.; and Tulare, Calif.

Benson referred questions about pay and other issues to a spokeswoman at Edy’s parent company, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Inc., in Oakland, Calif.  Officials there didn’t respond to messages left Monday.

In 2007, when Edy’s announced its Fort Wayne expansion, economic development officials said the average production worker at the plant was making more than $40,000 a year.  The Fort Wayne City Council has granted Edy’s more than $1.5 million worth of tax breaks over 10 years for expanding its local operation.

Dreyer’s is a subsidiary of Nestlé S.A., based in Vevey, Switzerland.

                                                  Source: Marty Schladen, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

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