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Ohio State grants $20 million for Comar expanding West Coast

cracker project footprint

obsOhio is investing another $20 million toward site ew Jersey-based packaging, device and component
Jwork completion to facilitate development of a Nmolder Comar LLC is building a custom facility in
proposed ethane cracker plant in Belmont County. Matt Rancho Cucamonga, California. The 230,000-square-
Englehart, spokesman for the state’s private, nonprofit foot facility will replace existing Comar plants in
development corporation, announced that the grant had Rancho Cucamonga and Garden Grove, Calif. The new
plant will house injection and injection stretch blow
molding and injection molding cells. Some 26,000
square feet of space will have ISO Class 8 injection
molding and assembly clean rooms. Comar has secured
the new facility and submitted drawings and permit
applications. Its goal is to start construction in the
spring of 2020 and complete move in and production
startup by the end of 2020 of the year. "This new facility
will provide best-in-class medical device production
areas and significant additional capacity to grow
with our customers across product lines and market
segments," Comar CEO Mike Ruggieri said. The new
facility will be ISO 13485 certified and will feature a
been awarded to partners PTT Global Chemical America mold prototyping lab, dedicated mold sampling and
and Daelim Chemical USA on Friday. He explained that development equipment. The capabilities will enable
the funds will go directly to Bechtel Corp., which has Comar to design and prototype new products, and bring
been working at the potential Dilles Bottom location them to full production.Pete Scharber, vice president of
and has been announced as the general contractor on direct sales, said combining Comar's West Coast team
the project, if it moves forward. “JobsOhio’s assistance onto a single campus will create new opportunities to
facilitates the efforts of PTTGCA and Daelim Chemical collaborate with medical customers. Voorhees, N.J.-
USA to move forward on critical site-related engineering based Comar was founded in 1949, and is principally
and site preparation work in a comprehensive and timely owned by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. Comar
manner,” Englehart said via email. “With the completion
of this ongoing work, Ohio will have an invaluable asset
on the Ohio River that will maximize the attractiveness
of the Belmont County site for a positive final investment
decision.”Since, 2015, Thailand-based PTTGCA has been
considering the multi-billion dollar project. It purchased
about 500 acres of land, including a former power plant
site, just south of the Moundsville Bridge. In 2018, PTTGCA
Partnered with Daelim, of South Korea, to advance the
project. This grant provides the PTTDLM project with
the necessary resources to continue engineering work ranked No. 22 on Plastics News' North American blow
and site preparation that must be done in the coming molders list with $125 million in sales in 2018. The
months,” company spokesman Dan Williamson said. PTTGC company has eight manufacturing and distribution
America and Daelim Chemical USA are sincerely grateful locations. In January, Comar announced the purchase
to JobsOhio, which has been a steadfast and supportive of Woodville, Wis.-based medical injection molding
partner without whom this project would not be possible. specialist iMark Molding Inc.

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