Plastic compound maker Manner Polymers will increase the size of its recently announced Illinois facility to 100,000 square-feet, Controller Matt Love told Manufacturing Dive this week.
The $54 million site will increase the Texas-based company’s production capacity of polyvinyl chloride by 100 million pounds, boosting domestic supply for markets including automotive, appliance and medical, to name a few, according to a release earlier this month.
“A lot of the capacity is already accounted for,” Love said of the new facility. Production is slated to start in the summer of 2025.
Manner Polymers is the second company to receive funding from Illinois’ Reimagining Energy and Vehicles incentive package for its project. The assistance totals $4.6 million.
Many of the company’s customers are in the automotive wire industry and use the product to coat the wires they sell to “a lot of the big name auto manufacturers” that make EVs, Love explained.
Love added that Manner Polymers’ expansion is “kind of a timing-based thing” with the Inflation Reduction Act incentives available right now.
“They decrease over time, so the sooner we start, the more incentives we get,” he said.
