Cambria Expanding Minnesota Production
LE SUEUR, Minn. – Cambria is adding another production line at its quartz-surface manufacturing here, with a completion date set for next June.
Plant Expansion
Work on the expansion began this March, according to the Herald, with completion of the polishing line set for next April and the make line in June.
Cambria looks to hire 110 new positions to operate the expanded facility, the Herald noted, adding to its current workforce of 530.
Most of the expansion work to date dealt with installing utilities and leveling land for expanding the plant’s current structure to include the make line, the Herald reports. Concrete floors still need to be poured.
When finished, the new production line will produce Cambria’s current regular and jumbo slabs, the Herald noted, along with the ability to create super-jumbo slabs.
The new addition is the fifth expansion of Cambria’s plant since the opening of its original 179,000 ft² structure in 2000. When the current addition completed next year, the entire facility will cover more than one-million square feet.
Cambria President/CEO Marty Davis also told the Herald that the expansion now in progress is phase one of a two-part plan; preliminary work should begin by next summer for adding yet another make line with estimated costs of $125 million.
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