FDP Virginia announced the opening of a new facility adjacent to its existing operation in Tappahannock, Va. The two combined facilities are 600,000 square feet on 275 acres.
The new facility was purchased from Canon USA and will be called Mount Landing Road. It has 25,000 square feet of “Class A” office space, 15,000 square feet of technical research, 125,000 square feet of manufacturing and 110,000 square feet of warehouse along with 36 loading docks and nine overhead cranes.
“Mount Landing Road will be used to handle our rapidly expanding brake friction business as well as provide room for entry into new product lines,” said Jack Carney president and CEO of FDP Virginia. “We are proud to be expanding our research and manufacturing operations, and creating more jobs with products made in the USA. Mount Landing Road gives us the ability to do things we have wanted to do for a number of years.”
The facility will include a new automated high-capacity manufacturing system for disc brakes and allow changes for a 45-minute total time process for the production of drum brakes.
FDP Virginia has been providing automotive original equipment and aftermarket products made in the USA for more than 30 years. For more information visit www.FDPbrakes.com.
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