Brit company builds manufacturing facility in Brenham, Texas

Houston Chronicle:
Brenham has more going on than just ice cream.

Precision Polymer Engineering/IDEX Sealing Solutions has selected the Texas town for it first U.S. plant, where it will make O-rings and rubber sealing components used in a variety of industries.

Houston-based Welcome Group, a single-tenant design build and build-to-suit development firm, has completed a new 30,000-square-foot building for the manufacturer of O-rings and compression molding products in the Brenham Business Center on Blue Bell Road.

Based in northern England, Precision Polymer Engineering’s products are used in the oil and gas, food, pharmaceutical, and engine manufacturing industries. The new plant contains 3,960 square feet of office and 26,040 square feet of warehouse space on 4.9 acres.

“Brenham offers a stable and skilled labor pool and a lower cost of operations, while still providing great access to Texas’ major markets, and that is what attracted PPE to this site,” Page Michel, president of the Brenham Economic Development Foundation, said in an announcement. “PPE will be a valued addition to our local industrial base, and we look forward to them starting up operations.”
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Brenham is one of those Texas towns that has a surprising amount of manufacturing.  Besides being headquarters for Blue Bell Ice Cream, it has manufacturing facilities for Sealy Mattresses, a wire coat hanger plant and a car hauling trailer manufacturer among others.  While it is not in the sweet spot for the Eagle Ford formation it is close enough to it provide services.

This is just another demonstration of how the shale revolution and energy business are creating manufacturing jobs and how European companies are moving their facilities here.

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