Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
USSC Group celebrates grand opening
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The USSC Group held a grand opening event Friday of its brand new 300,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at 101 Gordon Drive. The facility will create 280 new manufacturing jobs.
USSC Group CEO and President Joseph Mirabile thanked his employees for their dedication in creating safe ground-breaking products and technology that will solve problems for clients with the creation of innovation products that will save lives.
“We are absolutely passionate about providing the best and safest survivability products to our customers,” Mirabile said. “Our employees’ passion for saving lives and pushing the limits for what our products can do is what drives us to develop fire suppression systems that protect thousands of school buses and transit buses around the country. It’s what drives us to build the finest fire trucks and ambulance seats for our well-deserving first-responders and the world’s highest performing seats for our military.”
USSC Group is a global leader in the commercial and military seating industry, designs and engineers world-class safety, and survivability seating and technology products for commercial
transportation vehicles. Four proprietary brands; make up the United States Seating Company Group.
“Working with these world-class partner organizations from all over the world gives us the ability to bring the greatest technologies out there to our customers,” Mirabile said. “It allows us to push the boundaries of what is possible for our products every day.”
The facility will create 280 new manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania. The Chester County Economic Development Council (CCEDC) and the Governor’s Action Team played an integral role in making this project happen.
“These are important jobs,” CCEDC President Gary Smith said. “The reason we are in business, yes it’s great to have corporate success and profitability of a company, that’s really important, but really, it’s the men and women that work here that are important.”
Governor’s Action Team project manager Richard Heaney congratulated USSC for the expansion which will result in a capital investment of more than $13 million and the creation of manufacturing jobs, a signature of Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy issue. He noted this project will receive $350,000 in grant money and $100,000 for job training to ensure that the USSC employees will succeed in today’s manufacturing environment.
Jeff Knueple, Septa General Manger, said the Act 81, Pennsylvania’s landmark transportation funding bill and the federal fastact have enabled Septa to address critical infrastructure needs and to being replacing 500 vehicles that surpassed its normal useful life. Septa is a customer of USSC products.
David Cosgrove, APTA Legislative Chair (American Public Transportation Association) said the investment by USSC is vital to the future of public transportation and the customers’ needs and expectations continue to evolve.
“Communities that can move their people efficiently, easily and quickly, will be the magnets for prosperity,” Cosgrove said. “One of the most important assets for success is having modern mobility solutions, anchored by a great public transit system. Making that a reality depends on capital investments like the one we have before us.”
Mike Hompesch, Dubin Clark Partner, said the new facility means continued growth for the commonwealth and USSC will help companies with needed products. Dan Peters, president of REV Group, thanked the company for the Valor product seats for its ambulances and fire apparatus and described it as a better and safer seat.
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