HUBER HEIGHTS A GOOD FIT FOR GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS
Equipment maker calls move good approach to future.
A global producer of precision measuring equipment made it official last week, moving its headquarters from California to Huber Heights and celebrating the first of what will be a two-phase local expansion.
There were several reasons for making the Dayton area home, said Ian Benson, global marketing director for NDC Technologies: Doing global business is easier from the Eastern time zone, many customers are closer to the Dayton area and the company already owned the building at 8001 Technology Blvd.
“It’s a good approach for the future,” Benson said.
NDC Technologies announced in March it was moving its headquarters operation from Irwindale, Calif. to Technology Boulevard, where it had already had a presence. Here, about 65 employees work in administration, front-office, assembly and testing operations, and the company plans to add another 45 to 50 employees.
About 10 employees are expected to move from California to Ohio, but that number may change, Benson and others said.
The first phase of the project is complete: A three-week renovation of the company’s front office area. The next step in the expansion: Renovating the company’s equipment assembly and testing areas.
NDC develops and produces process measurement and control instruments, devices that measure moisture and roundness for the food, tobacco and cable industries, among other customers. In deciding to shift their base to Ohio, company leaders wanted to consolidate production and administration functions.
Dave Roland, president of NDC, was at the recent event, with Dayton Development Coalition officials and a representative of Spectris, the United Kingdom-based company that owns NDC.
“This is a huge step for us,” Roland said.
Jo Hallas, business group director for Spectris, told assembled employees in a ribbon-cutting ceremony that the goal behind the expansion was to create “a headquarters you can really be proud of.”
The company ranks first or second in many of the markets in which it competes, thanks in part to its “fabulous core,” Hallas added.
Six percent of the company’s sales are outside North America.
The company’s facility in Irwindale will not close, but will undergo infrastructure improvements, NDC has said. That will be a third phase of what the company sees as a national expansion.
NDC also has a manufacturing facility in the U.K., and direct sales and support facilities in China, Japan, France, Germany and Italy.