Marves Industries will Produce Mattress Padding in Hildebran, NC
Marves Industries, an international textiles manufacturing company, will be occupying the former Bauer Industries plant at 205 Cline Park Drive in Hildebran, and using the building and existing equipment to manufacture padding to be used in mattresses and furniture. The average wage for workers is expected to by $33,636, not including benefits. They plan to be up and running by January, employing about 50 people in 2010 and adding more jobs later on.
Marves Industries is an affiliate of a Mexican Company known as Industrias Marves S.A. de C.V. (Sociedad Anonima de Capital Variable, translated as "variable capital company"). That company is based about 200 miles west of Mexico City, in the city of Urupuan in the state of Michoacán. They have been in business for many years and have about 60% market share of the mattress padding industry in Mexico, dealing with such companies as Sealy, Simmons, & Restonic. In addition to mattress padding, they also supply padding for the furniture industry.
This is the company's first move into the U.S., and it is receiving a $200,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund as an incentive to locate its operations in Hildebran. The corporation itself plans to invest $1.75 million in the move. The company was attracted to the area because it is in an ideal location to supply mattress manufacturers in the eastern U.S., because it is overly expensive to ship such a lightweight and voluminous product from Mexico to manufacturers in the US.The available building, with the proper manufacturing equipment in place, and Hildebran's trained manufacturing & textile workforce were also big attractions.
The former plant's owners, Bauer Industries, manufactured aucoustic padding for automotive interiors. They closed apruptly in February 2009, giving workers only a 30-minute notice they were losing their jobs, before padlocking the doors and moving out. They had been open for about 15 years and employed around 40 people.
For information about job opportunities with the company, call Cindy Foster at 397-4400 or send a resume to Marves Industries, Attn: Cindy Foster, P.O. Box 946, Hildebran, N.C. 28637.
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