Ogden's Fresenius Medical Care Plant Will Add Up to 270 New Jobs
Posted on: Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 00:00 CST
By Jeff DeMoss, Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah
Mar. 28--OGDEN -- Fresenius Medical Care AG has announced that it plans to expand its 640,000-square-foot Ogden plant and increase production of its kidney dialysis products by 22 percent at the facility by mid-2007.
Fresenius is expected to add as many as 270 jobs in the next two years at the plant, where it already has about 1,300 employees.
About 190,000 square feet will be added to the production facility, 475 W. 13th St., and the company will lease additional warehouse space at Business Depot Ogden.
The expansion will increase the plant's annual capacity for producing dialysis filters and solution bags from 27 million units to more than 33 million, according to a company news release.
Fresenius officials at the Ogden plant and the company's North American headquarters in Massachusetts could not be reached for comment Monday.
"We view this expansion as our pledge to the future of renal patient care," said Rice Powell, chief executive of the company's Products and Hospital Group and co-CEO of Fresenius Medical Care North America, in a written statement. "As the world's premier manufacturer of dialyzers, we believe this expansion will benefit the local community, our employees, our patients and our shareholders."
The Ogden Redevelopment Agency earlier this month approved $675,000 in property tax incentives to assist the expansion.
The Ogden plant has expanded four times since 1994. Fresenius has received more than $5 million in state and local incentives during that time, but has also added hundreds of jobs that pay above the Weber County median annual wage of $21,500.
Fresenius, based in Bad Homburg, Germany, had 2005 sales of $6.77 billion, a 9 percent increase over 2004. Net income for the year jumped 13 percent to $455 million. The company is the global leader in dialysis products and services. In addition to the products it manufactures, it operates about 1,700 clinics serving more than 130,000 dialysis patients worldwide.
Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey, Gov. Jon Huntsman and several Fresenius executives will visit the plant Wednesday for a ceremony marking the start of the expansion.
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