Xerium Expanding Two Plants to Enhance Roll Cover, Mechanical Services Business

Xerium Technologies Inc., Youngsville, N.C., USA, has announced two plant expansion projects to enhance its roll products and mechanical services capabilities for the North American market. Xerium will expand and modernize its Griffin, Ga., plant. It will broaden its mechanical service offering, expand its capabilities for rubber roll recovering, and expand its capabilities for industrial roll recovering. These new investments will also lower lead times. 

 

This expansion is expected to generate increased sales volumes in the region. Completion is scheduled for Q4 2015.

 

Xerium will expand and modernize its Neenah, Wis., plant. It will broaden its product offering by installing a state-of the-art polyurethane roll cover production cell, and increase the size and breadth of its mechanical services department to more broadly serve customers in the region. These new investments will also improve lead times. This expansion is expected to generate increased sales volumes in the region. Completion is scheduled for Q4/2015.

 

Both facilities manufacture and repair large rolls used in the production of paper, containerboard, boxboard, tissue, pulp, nonwoven fabrics, fiber cement siding, steel, film production, and flexible packaging. Both facilities mechanically repair and service large sections of production machines that require regular and sophisticated maintenance.

 

"These expansions enhance Xerium's product and service offerings to customers in these areas of the North American market," said Harold Bevis, president and CEO of Xerium. "Both modernization projects enable these two plants to supply all of Xerium's roll product portfolio and mechanical service technologies to assist large machine owners in these regions to achieve optimized machine performance."