Gov. Andy Beshear on Tuesday joined local officials and corporate leaders from the manufacturer Tate, Inc. to celebrate the company’s entry into Barren County, a development that marks the company’s largest facility in the world and the largest job-creation effort in Barren County in nearly two decades.

“I’m thrilled to welcome Tate to their new Kentucky home in Glasgow,” Beshear stated in a press release. “This is the largest job creation project that Barren County has seen in nearly 20 years, and our skilled workforce is ready to step in.”

Tate’s $76 million Barren development was announced last year. A parts supplier for data centers, the company will move into an existing, 764,000 square-foot facility in Glasgow near Jackie Browning Park. Once the facility goes online it will employ 400 full-time personnel.

The company is a subsidiary of the Ireland-based Kingspan Group PLC. Tate’s U.S. operations are headquartered in Maryland and facilities are currently operated in Virginia and Pennsylvania.

“This is huge for Barren County,” Judge-Executive Jamie Bewley Byrd told the Daily News last year. “A lot of the things we’ve been doing the last four years have been about improving the image of Barren County and enticing people to want to come here and do business here, and it’s paying off.”

Tate is moving into a facility that in a past life was home to LSC Communications, a Chicago-based company previously operating in Barren as RR Donnelley, which shuttered in 2020. Six hundred people worked in the facility at the time it shut down, at that time making it the second largest employer in the county.

“We’re hoping that this is just the start with 400 (workers) and that they can grow it even more,” Bewley Byrd said in October.