Bilco Consolidates

The Bilco Co. will relocate its current metal basement door manufacturing operation from West Haven, Conn., to its recently constructed facility in Zanesville, Ohio, where the company currently manufactures its line of high-density polyethylene basement doors and emergency egress window wells. The consolidation of the company's metal and non-metal manufacturing operations will occur during the first quarter of 2008.

Bilco expects this move to eventually add between 25 and 30 new employees to its Zanesville workforce. The total number of additional employees will include production, administration and supervisory level positions.

"We are excited about our growth strategy in Zanesville as it will enhance both customer service as well as product delivery," says Robert J. Lyons Jr, Bilco's president and chief executive officer. "From a more centralized location in our residential products market, Bilco will be able to provide mixed shipments of metal and plastic products to our customers with improved freight economies."

According to Lyons, the company's headquarters, commercial product sales organization and other support functions will remain at its present location in West Haven.

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