Latexco, the world’s largest producer of latex foam bedding components, will open its first U.S. latex production facility in Lavonia, Ga. The company will produce latex foam bed toppers and foam quilting rolls at the facility, investing over $10 million and employing 40 people by 2007.
The new facility is scheduled to open in July 2006. Initially, production will focus on fabricating and distributing bed toppers and rolls made with imported raw materials from Spain and Belgium. The facility will manufacture mattress cores as the U.S. market grows.
“With existing production facilities in Belgium, Spain and Indonesia, it makes sense to develop and service the North American market with domestic production of latex cores, toppers, rolls and pillows as soon as possible. The time is now to establish a world-class, customer-driven manufacturing facility in the United States,” said Latexco owner and CEO Luc Maes.
Headquartered in Tielt, Belgium, Latexco has 490 employees worldwide with production plants in Belgium, Spain and Indonesia. Sales figures for the company reached over $111 million USD in 2005, and the company produced 1 million mattress cores, over one million pillows, and two million toppers and quilting rolls.
