Precision Strip expands operations
Precision Strip in Woodburn will expand to Scotty’s Industrial Park in northern Warren County, officials said Monday.
The estimated $15.5 million project will be Precision Strip’s second Kentucky location and will provide 15 jobs. The planned 80,000-square-foot facility will have one slitting line.
The Precision Strip Woodburn site began operations in 1995, has expanded three times and has 112 people operating five metal-processing lines at a 308,000-square-foot plant.
The company last week qualified preliminarily for up to $300,000 in state tax incentives for the project.
“The new Precision Strip location in Bowling Green will be a nice complement to our existing operations in Woodburn,” said Joe Wolf, president of Precision Strip, in a news release from the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce.
Precision Strip toll processes, stores and delivers steel and aluminum for the automotive, appliance, industrial products and beverage-can industries. Precision Strip has more than 1,200 workers in a dozen facilities in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky. That’s 50 processing lines housed within more than 3 million square feet of building space.
In other developments, building permits filed with the city of Bowling Green show the 212,800-square-foot manifold building valued at $30 million planned for the General Motors Bowling Green Assembly Plant, 600 Corvette Drive.
Permits show a 106,313-square-foot and a 14,000-square-foot building addition at Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products LLC, 1 Kobe Way. The first project is valued at $11.1 million and is the sixth phase north side building expansion. The 14,000-square-foot project is valued at $1.2 million and is also a building addition.
Dollar General plans a 9,100-square-foot store at 6610 Louisville Road valued at $450,000. Trung Trihn has taken out a building permit for 2,640-square-foot facility at 1530 Campbell Lane for a pharmacy. Trihn declined to comment on the project on Monday. Initial work for the project is valued at $90,000.
Sam’s Club, 3200 Ken Bale Blvd., filed a permit for renovations on 137,872 square feet valued at $912,000. A spokesman for Wal-Mart media did not return a telephone call Monday.
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