Dwyer Cos. building new West Chester plant
Demand for repairing cracked foundations and lifting sunken concrete has prompted Dwyer Cos. to expand at its West Chester headquarters.
The company said it is breaking ground Friday on a 35,000-square-foot manufacturing plant across from its headquarters on Schumacher Park Drive. The building, designed and built by KZF Design and Schumacher Dugan Construction, is scheduled to be completed in early to mid-October.
Bryan Dwyer, who founded Dwyer Concrete Lifting in 1985 to raise slabs of sunken concrete, added foundation repair services over the years and in 2000, purchased St. Louis-based Magnum Piering, which makes steel underpinning systems.
Demand for the systems has outgrown the company's current manufacturing capacity, Dwyer said in the release http://us-no-fax-payday-loans.com.
"We simply must have more space - not only to manufacture our products more efficiently, but also to support our ongoing engineering, training and support operations for our Magnum Piering dealers and installers," he said.
More than 100 employees have been added since the Magnum Piering acquisition, and sales volume has grown sixfold, the company said. The company employs 130 in total.