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Uponor invests $6.35mn to expand PEX pipe manufacturing

build a future on innovation, education and advocacy to better serve our customers while also growing the state’s manufacturing workforce.” The Hutchinson site provides access to a large pool of manufacturing talent and remains close enough to the company’s existing operations to use shared services. It is the 11 th expansion since Uponor began operations in Minnesota in 1990. The purchase of the new facility follows Uponor’s announcement in May that it will expand its Apple Valley manufacturing facility with a $17.4mn investment. That expansion is expected to be completed by January 2018. The newest acquisition will bring the company’s total footprint in North America to more than one million square feet.

Uponor North America has signed an agreement to purchase an existing 237,000 ft 2 manufacturing facility and office space in Hutchinson, Minnesota, USA. The $6.35mn investment is located around 70 miles west of the company’s North American headqua- ters in Apple Valley. The company, which manufactures cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) pipe and related products, is growing its US manufacturing operations to support continued opportunities in commercial and residential construction. Uponor expects the facility to become operational by early 2019. Previously owned by Hutchinson Technology, Inc, the building will be renovated to manufacture PEX pipe used in Uponor’s plumbing, fire sprinkler, radiant-heating and cooling systems. Modelled after its facility in Apple Valley,

the company will remain committed to high environmental and sustainability standards and operational excellence. “Uponor is seeing unprecedented product demand as a result of continued growth in commercial and residential construction,” said Uponor North America president Bill Gray. “This investment will allow Uponor to increase production capacity as we The new facility will add 237,000 ft 2 of manufacturing and office space to support Uponor’s PEX piping business

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