Dixon-Constant is a global outdoor textile specialist who has been a subsidiary of American Glenn Raven since 1998. The company has become the world leader in technical textiles and plans to invest 40 million in a new factory in Hortine, not far from Valencian (north). The company, already established in Vascual on Lille’s outskirts, has undergone a series of expansions in recent years but has now completed 370 employees and had to find a quick fix.
The new project, which is expected to create about 150 jobs, will enable Dixon-Constant to increase its capacity by 50% while securing land reserves for future improvements. Eugene Teleplank insists that the investment was not made to the detriment of the Vasquez plant, which will benefit from 4 to 5 million euros in jobs this year, replacing a quarter of the looms.
The new site will serve as a single logistics base for its raw materials and its finished products, which will replace the existing warehouses at the port of Sandes and Leskin.
For this purpose, the team will set up a building of 15,000 square meters and a height of 20 meters, which should be operational by June 2022. But the plant can quickly go into production because the 15,000-square-meter building already has space, which held a cotton mill a few years ago.
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