June 1, 2012
Nashville Post
by Walker Duncan
Manufacturing firm Avure Technologies is expanding its operations in Middle Tennessee.
According to the company, the new plant will be located near Franklin where Avure is headquartered. The announcement says that the new facility is slated to come online within the year.
“We have sustainable growth in all of our product lines,” said Pat Adams, the company’s CEO. “We announced in April 2012 that we would organize the company into two divisions, and this expansion allows us to add technical and production capacity in both our food division, for HPP systems, and our industrial division, for isostatic, metal forming, and specialty presses. This investment demonstrates our commitment to maintain market leadership and innovation for the benefit of our customers globally.”
Avure designs, makes and services equipment that allows manufacturers — from aerospace and energy companies to makers of orthopedic implants and even the food industry — to process products with extremely high pressure. Its machines can range in size from something that would fit comfortably on a tabletop to a behemoth weighing a hundred tons or more.
The company, which moved to Middle Tennessee last year, also noted the benefits of the new facility’s location, with Glenn Hewson, vice president of global marketing, noting, “The new plant’s geographic proximity to the company’s large North American customer base will increase our ability to incorporate the industry’s needs into our products.”
The news of the facility comes following Avure’s record sales year in 2011.