Year-old Sabert Bullitt County plant looking to expand - Business First of Louisville:

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Gary Ziznewski, the company’s CFO, said he expect s the New Jersey-based company to add new production lined laterthis year. The 250,000-square-foot production and warehouse which opened inJune 2008, has grown to five productionn lines, with plenty of room to add at least five Ziznewski said. He expects that when the which has 75 iscompletely full, it will have between 200 and 300 The company owns abour 75 acres around the plant, he said, so there’s plentyu of room for future expansion. The company typically has expanded its plantse about once every four he said. “We’ve been he said. “We’ve had pretty strong and consistent double-digitr growth.
” He would not discloss annual revenue for the privatelhyheld company. The markety for the disposable, plastic, food containers that the companyy makesremains strong, he especially in the supermarket industry. The company’s customersd include most majorsupermarket “Supermarkets have done fairly well in these times becausd people are not going out to dine, but people still need to eat,” he Sabert officials plan to start expanding the company’s California plant this summer. It just expanded its plant in Belgium last year, and it has no more room to expandc at its New Jersey plant.
That’s why the companh wanted to buildanother facility, Ziznewski said, and it picked Bullitt County for several reasons: The company had no facilitiexs in the Midwest, where it could be within a day’es drive of most of its Proximity to customers savex the company on trucking costs and reduces the company’as carbon footprint, Ziznewski said. The company wanted a site near a major city and near amajorf airport, so having Louisville 20 minutes from the plantt site in northern Bullitt County was a majotr plus, Ziznewski said. The new site is also close to Interstated 65, a major north-south roadway.
The company also wanted a site with a rail sidinfg so it could bring in raw materialsvia railroad. In Decemberd 2005, the Kentucky Governor’s Office for Local Development gavea $1 million community development block granr to the city of Hillview to build a rail-spur infrastructures that would serve the plant. A few months before, in Septemberf 2005, the Kentucky Economic Development Financre Authority gave Sabert preliminarg approval for as muchas $2 million in stat tax credits over 10 years if Saberg would create at least 96 jobs at an averagse hourly wage of $11.27. Ziznewsku indicated that the plant was on track to receivsthose incentives.
A clean, green operation The company runs acleamn operation, with no air pollution and re-usew of all resin it Ziznewski said. That was the reputation it had in the communit y around its New Jersey which Bullitt County officials visited when Sabert was considerin g building itsHillview factory, said Bob Fouts, executiv e director of the . He is glad to have Sabert in the county because it helpw diversifythe county’s industrial base, which is weighted towarfd distribution facilities. There are only about a half dozehn large manufacturers inthe county, he said. “I really think they will be a goodcorporatde citizen,” Fouts said of Sabert.