Solar Manufacturing Inc., Souderton, Pa., is relocating its headquarters to Sellersville, also in Pennsylvania, where it will build a facility that includes 40,000 square feet for manufacturing and 17,500 square feet for office space.
The Sellersville Borough Council recently granted unanimous preliminary and final approval for the new building, which is located on a combined 8.5 acres. Solar also has the option of an extra 22,500 square foot addition to the manufacturing building in the future.
“This new facility will provide us the space we need to grow and consolidate all our staff in one facility,” said William Jones, who along with his wife, Myrtle Jones, owns Solar Manufacturing, Inc. Gorski Engineering is scheduled to begin breaking ground for the new eight million dollar facility in the spring of 2018, with completion and occupancy later that fall.
According to Jim Nagy, President of Solar Manufacturing, “Our most important customer is our sister company, Solar Atmospheres of Souderton, with additional plants in Hermitage, Pa; Fontana, Calif.; and Greenville, S.C. Solar Atmospheres operates over 60 production vacuum furnaces, with additional large production vacuum furnaces on order for commercial vacuum heat treating applications.”
Solar Manufacturing employs 50 people and produces technologically advanced vacuum heat treating furnaces designed and built to be the most energy efficient, cost effective, and highest-performance vacuum furnaces for the aerospace, medical, electronic, and industrial markets throughout the world. The furnaces are intended primarily for metal heat treating processes such as hardening, brazing, stress relieving, normalizing, annealing, tempering, carburizing, nitriding, and sintering.
