Mancor has 110,000 square feet of space in plants on Leonhard Street and nearby Kiser Street. If the Leonhard Street plant expansion occurs, the plant would use the space to rearrange existing equipment, McKnight said.
“We’re not going to grow by 50 percent every year,” McKnight said. “Our business is back to where it was in 2006, basically.”
In addition, privately held freight broker Total Quality Logistics announced this week it has opened its 10th satellite office at 6525 Centerville Business Parkway with 17 employees and an anticipated 36 employees by the end of next year. With a network of more than 58,000 carriers, TQL has more than 7,000 customers for whom it arranges shipping across the U.S. and Canada.
Executive Vice President Kerry Bryne said TQL’s business has grown since 1997, and the company wants to add technology and salespeople. Opening a satellite office in Dayton makes it easier to hire salespeople, Byrne said.
“We recruit heavily in this entire region, but there are folks who live in Dayton who may not be interested in relocating” to the Cincinnati area, Byrne said.
Kevin Burch, president of the Dayton trucking firm Jet Express, said he sees a spike in freight tonnage every other month, but he doesn’t think the industry has turned around economically.
“I think we’ve been moving laterally for the last 12 months,” Burch said.
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