On Friday the company — which provides polymer product strengthening and medical device sterilization services — celebrated the opening of its new 90,000-square-foot facility. This concludes a $10 million project that added a second electron-beam accelerator, the fourth owned by E-Beam (two in Lebanon and two at its New Jersey plant).
The company is now at the beginning stages of fulfilling the promise of 20 to 25 new jobs, which include four technical positions already filled. The remaining jobs, which include operators for various shifts, will be hired over the course of the next few years, Minbiole said.
The success of the company, he said, is dependent on the success of its clients. But it also can help the broader business community, he said.
“There is a muliplier effect to the local area when we add to our electron beam capacity,” Minbiole said. “E-Beam Services expects its expansion to also attract other speciality manufacturers to this area over a period of years, which will bring in even more new jobs to the region.”
While the number of jobs being created aren’t huge numbers, Sherri Carbo Southwest Regional Liaison for Kasich, said the jobs are helping the state’s business “momentum.”
“Ohio’s becoming a jobs- and business-friendly state and people are recognizing that, whether it’s 20 jobs, 100 jobs or 250 jobs, Ohio is building momentum,” she said.
The state will give E-Beam a Job Creation Tax Credit. The project was initially supported by $6.5 million in recovery facility bonds issued by the Warren County Port Authority and purchased by U.S. Bank.
Warren County Commissioner David Young said this project was purely financed privately, though it did get a public push.
“It’s not government creating these jobs,” said Young, “it’s government creating the environment where these jobs can take off.”
E-Beam — the 2009 Industrial Business of the Year awarded by the city of Lebanon — said collaborative work between the city, county and state, and the private sector allows everyone to benefit, said Lebanon Mayor Amy Brewer.
“Not only do we work hard to bring in new business and industry in our community, but we have success in keeping them,” she said.
“It increases the momentum and the energy of other businesses as well. Businesses want to go to thriving communities. If one business is successful, there’s potential for another business to be successful. It’s a domino effect.”
That momentum began to work last year when Hardy Diagnostics announced its expansion into Springboro. The California-based manufacturer of culture media kits and rapid identification kids for microbiological testing will complete the first of four phases of its $1.5 million building project this February, said Steve Marino, the company’s corporate controller.
Because of E-Beam, Hardy, which has a few employees currently, projects that it will employ about 70.
And since E-Beam requires that many products be shipped by rail, Franklin Yards Logistics Park is benefiting, as well as E-Beam’s neighbor and client Nibco, a plumbing manufacturing company at 2800 Henkle Drive.
This is the latest example of jobs being produced in Warren County. Since September, a handful of companies — mostly in southern Warren County — have promised more than 600 jobs will be created in the next three to five years.
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