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$20 million manufacturing facility coming to Muhlenberg County
MUHLENBERG, Ky. (WEHT) — In Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear helped to break ground on a new manufacturing facility Friday afternoon. Biomass Engineering and Equipment is the first to locate in the Paradise Regional Industrial Park, building a new $20 million facility.
Biomass Engineering and Equipment's new addition will be a 85,000 square foot facility. Dane Floyd, the CEO of BE&E, says the company produces equipment used for bulk handling in agriculture and recycling. For example, wood products like wood chips and lumber.
The Indiana-based company says the start of their Kentucky expansion will create 250 full-time jobs locally.
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'We try to take good care of people, but it's also the fall down effect of all of the vendors and suppliers. They're going to get business from us. Everyday there's trucks of steel, trucks of plastic and supplies,' says Floyd of BE&E.
Governor Andy Beshear, BE&E employees and county officials picked up their shovels to celebrate the start of construction…hoping to have the state-of-the-art facility complete in less than a year.
Statistics show manufacturing makes up 18 percent of the state's overall economy, bringing in $36.9 billion last year.
Officials say that statistic means those new jobs will be able to withstand the test of time.
'We beat out other states yet again. Things have been really looking up at Kentucky. Hearing great feedback about speed to market, and we're going to get them up and running faster than anywhere else. They're excited about the workforce here in Muhlenberg county and the surrounding counties. It's just a great testament,' says Governor Beshear.
Even more so, the project is the first to be placed on Paradise Industrial Park's 600 acres.
The park's land was bought in 2002 and is a part of a 5-county partnership, uniting Muhlenberg, Daviess, Hopkins, McLean and Ohio counties.
They'll continue working together to attract large companies to their rural communities.
'A win for an adjacent county isn't a loss for the other. Knowing that our people drive county to county to go to work, working together to bring in as many of these opportunities it's special. It's helping us get these wins,' says Governor Beshear.
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