Swedish manufacturer chooses South Carolina for its first East Coast facility
A Swedish manufacturer plans to open an $18 million facility and hire 90 people in Clinton.
Blue Diamond Industries, a subsidiary of Hexatronic Group AB, makes polyethylene conduits for fiber optic and power cables. Blue Diamond’s headquarters is in Lexington, Kentucky, and it has manufacturing operations in Middlesboro, Kentucky, and Aubrey, Texas.
Once the site of Shaw Flooring, the 190,000-square-foot building in Clinton will be the first East Coast manufacturing facility for the company.
Blue Diamond Industries was founded in 2004.
Farpoint Development, located in Chicago, and Annenberg Investments Ltd. bought the Torrington Road building and leased it to Blue Diamond Industries.
“It’s exciting to know they’ll be contributing to growing the nation’s critical infrastructure from the heart of Upstate South Carolina in Laurens County,” said Justin Patwin, managing director at Farpoint Development in its office in Hendersonville, N.C.
On its website, Blue Diamond said its product “addresses the growing needs in the power utility, cable television, broadband and commercial and industrial markets, as well as serving the U.S. Department of Transportation markets.”
The facility is expected to be operational by July 2022. Jobs are posted on the company’s careers page.