Bolta marks new plant's opening
By Stephen Dethrage / Staff Writer
Posted Jul 21, 2017
The Bolta Group celebrated the grand opening of its first production facility in the United States on Friday afternoon in the Tuscaloosa Airport Industrial Park.
The multinational company specializes in automotive surface finishing, applying nickel and chrome plating to plastic parts and decorative trim. Among other things, workers at the new facility will produce the iconic three-pointed star hood ornament for the Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant in Vance.
The $50 million plant employs 200 today and expects to increase that number to at least 350 workers by the end of 2018, although the head of Bolta's parent company, the Purico Group, said they expect even more growth than that.
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