Logan Corporation Expands Salyersville, Kentucky, Plant
02/10/2020
Logan quickly outgrew the Martin County facility and relocated to a facility five times larger in Magoffin County. That move to Salyersville resulted in the ongoing hiring of 70 additional Kentucky residents. Since 2015, Logan Corp.’s dump truck body sales have grown 20% year over year with continued growth anticipated.
To facilitate this growth, Logan plans to expand the Salyersville facility by 13,000 square feet in order to accommodate the installation of a Wheelabrator. The Wheelabrator is a large-scale sand-and-media-blasting unit that will be used to prepare dump truck bodies for paint application, and its addition will dramatically increase production speed by eliminating a labor-intensive, hand-sanding process. Logan’s executives plan to finish the project by December 2020.
“Logan Corp.’s management team is thrilled to announce this expansion,” said Logan Corp. Vice President Randy Risner. “We continue to be grateful to our extremely skilled and hard-working employees, the State of Kentucky, Magoffin County, the City of Salyersville and state agencies such as the Kentucky Economic Development Financing Authority and the Kentucky Skills Network for their continued support.”
To encourage the investment and job growth in the community, the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) approved Logan Corp. for up to $20,000 in tax incentives through the Kentucky Enterprise Initiative Act (KEIA). KEIA allows approved companies to recoup Kentucky sales and use tax on construction costs, building fixtures, equipment used in research and development and electronic processing. In addition, Logan Corp. can receive resources from the Kentucky Skills Network.
Founded in Logan, West Virginia, as a hardware store in 1904, Logan Corp. got its start as a supplier of farm machinery, mining equipment and household goods. The company, now headquartered in Nitro, West Virginia, distributes globally recognized equipment brands, operates three manufacturing facilities of its own, and provides services for the mining, railroad, industrial, construction and power-generation industries. The company currently employs 74 in Salyersville and plans to increase employment over the coming years.
“Logan Corp. reinvented its business model when faced with a market shift, and the company’s innovation has been rewarded with solid growth and the ongoing creation of much-needed jobs for Eastern Kentuckians,” Governor Andy Beshear said. “Logan embodies a forward-looking approach, one we Kentuckians should embrace in the years to come. I’d like to thank Logan for this investment and wish the company well as it continues to grow.”
“I am extremely pleased at today’s announcement from Logan Corp. After just four years we are looking at an almost 15% workforce expansion and investment in a technology that will make the company more efficient,” Rep. John Blanton said. “These types of projects are exactly why the KEDFA incentives were created and I’m glad that we were all able to work together to make it happen.
One East Kentucky President and CEO Chuck Sexton said the company’s manufacturing prowess provides tremendous value to the region.
“Logan Corp. has been a great partner of One East Kentucky since our nine-county regional economic development efforts began in 2015,” Sexton said. “Logan Corp. is an anchor in Eastern Kentucky’s manufacturing sector. Their project in 2016 was One East Kentucky’s first economic development project after being incorporated the year prior. We are proud of the success they have experienced and will continue to have in our region.”
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