Columbia Flooring to Double Capacity at Danville P
Danville, VA, August 2-- Columbia Flooring today announced plans to invest $13.5 million in an expansion of its Danville engineered hardwood flooring plant that will ultimately double the facility's production capability.
The company will also build a national distribution center for its engineered hardwood and laminate products here.
Construction is scheduled to commence August 2004, with the new line slated to start up production in the first quarter of 2005.
"Our Danville plant currently runs three shifts, seven days a week," Columbia President David Wootton said. "There's a tremendous demand for our engineered hardwood flooring products, so the time is right to increase our capacity substantially."
The plant's expansion will create an additional manufacturing and prefinishing line that will run one shift per day to start. Two more shifts are expected to be added within two years. Ultimately the facility will double its current output, creating nearly 200 new jobs.
"A great deal of success in Danville can be attributed to our employee-ownership and open-book management system," plant manager John Tappan said. "Our employees have made this facility a model of safety, continuous improvement and operational excellence throughout the industry."
Columbia will also expand and remodel a nearby Danville warehouse into a 100,000 square-foot national distribution center, which will house the company's engineered hardwood and laminate flooring products.
