Vaughan-Bassett investing $1 million to expand plant
Extra space will be used for storage, staging
Thomas Russell -- Furniture Today, June 2, 2010
GALAX, Va. — Bedroom manufacturer Vaughan-Bassett has announced a $1 million, 16,000-square-foot expansion of its main plant here.The company broke ground in May and plans to have the work completed by December. The added space will be used to store bed rails and mirrors and for the staging of shipments from the adjoining shipping facility.
In May, it completed the first two phases of the project, relocating its two bed production lines from the machine room to the pack room. It also moved two offices and a restroom to open up a forklift aisle that will allow the movement of parts from the machine room to the bed production lines.
A phase to be completed in July will involve reorganizing machinery, using about 8,000 square feet opened up with the relocation of the bed lines.
Vaughan-Bassett said the project is necessary due to the success of the $3 million Weinig Rough End System it installed at the Galax plant last July, which improves the company's efficiency in cutting lumber.
"We have been able to cut significantly more lumber and we are generating many more parts with our new system," President and CEO Wyatt Bassett said in a statement.
He added that the latest expansion will add jobs in the coming months and years, but did not specify how many.
Doug Bassett, executive vice president and chief operating officer, said the company hopes to add jobs at the same pace it has grown over the past year. He said the manufacturer has added 60 jobs in Galax in the past 15 months and brought back 50 workers since it reopened its Elkin, N.C., plant in September.
Vaughan-Bassett now employs more than 700 at the two facilities.
Clark Bros. Construction of Stuart, Va., is handling the expansion.
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