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By Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer Updated 1:06 AM Saturday, August 14, 2010

More than $100 million of medical devices and speciality products take a ride on Paul Minbiole’s conveyor belts every year.

Minbiole, chief executive of E-BEAM Services, Inc., wants to increase that. E-BEAM intends to “immediately” expand the company’s electron beam processing facility to 90,000 square feet, the company said this week.

The expansion is expected to double the work force at the Lebanon site, with 20 to 25 more employees expected to be hired over the next three years. Today, the 2775 Henkle Drive plant has 25 employees, with room for further expansion. He noted that the firm has 11 acres of property, and even as it builds plant No. 2, “We’re careful to leave room for plant no. 3.”

“We’re happy to be in this part of this world,” the CEO said.

E-beams are electron beams that sterilize medical or pharmaceutical equipment such as syringes or specialty products like plastics, certain gaskets, teflon micro-powders, balloon catheters, wire and cable products and more. The process — bombarding products with waves of accelerated electrons — sterilizes medical devices and strengthens what might otherwise be commodity plastics, Minbiole said.

“We’re kind of an important step, a very special value-added step,” he said.

The firm has already acquired a second e-beam accelerator to more than double its processing capacity, the company said.

Bonds amounting to $6.5 million, as part the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act issued through the Warren County Port Authority, are assisting the expansion, the company said. E-BEAM is also receiving a job creation tax credit from Ohio.

E-BEAM was incorporated in the mid-1980s to acquire the e-beam service division of a subsidiary of Monsanto and is a privately held firm with over 50 employees total in Lebanon, Cranbury, N.J. and Lafayette, Ind.

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