Austrian engineering solutions provider Starlinger (Vienna; www.starlinger.com) has recently announced that groundbreaking ceremonies were held at its North American sales and services arm, Starlinger-Sahm (ASSI, Greenville, South Carolina; www.starlingersahm.com). The company is expanding and building a new headquarters, which is scheduled to open in spring 2015.

Located in Fountain Inn, South Carolina, about 33 km south of Greenville, the 2,140 m² facility is to include a new machine exhibition area, spare parts warehouse and office space for sales and technical support. Starlinger, a family-owned business, supplies machinery and complete lines for woven plastic bag production from its production sites in Weissenbach and St. Martin / Austria as well as Taicang / China.

“Machinery from Starlinger textile packaging, Starlinger recycling technology, Starlinger vicotec and from Sahm will be installed and available for demonstration runs and customer trials,” noted Jimmy Cranford, president of the North American subsidiary.

ASSI is owned by Starlinger Export GmbH and oversees sales and services activities as well as spare parts supply for some Starlinger divisions as well as for Germany-based Georg Sahm (Eschwege; www.sahmwinder.de) which, in addition to supplying the woven plastics packaging industry, also provides technology for plastics recycling and textile industries.
No financial details of the project were released.