ECM Industries is opening new plant in New Berlin
$15.1 million building is nearing completion
Menomonee Falls-based manufacturer ECM Industries LLC is opening a new, large facility in an expanding New Berlin business park.
ECM Industries, which makes electrical products under such brand names as Gardner Bender, Sperry Instruments and Bergen Industries, will occupy a 192,000-square-foot building in the South Moorland Road Business Park, according to the City of New Berlin.
That $15.1 million building, at 16250 W. Woods Edge Drive (formerly known as 6051 S. Moorland Road), is nearing completion and is expected to open in early 2019, according to the city’s Economic Development Watch email newsletter.
ECM Industries will use the entire building.
An ECM executive declined Monday to say whether the company would operate facilities in both New Berlin and Menomonee Falls, or whether it would base all its operations at the new building.
The company is now based at N85 W12545 Westbrook Crossing, Menomonee Falls.
ECM was formerly known as the electrical construction and maintenance division of Power Products LLC.
It was renamed in August after Brunswick Corp. completed its purchase of Power Products’ marine and mobile division from Genstar Capital, a private equity firm.
San Francisco-based Genstar continues to own what’s now known as ECM Industries. ECM sells its products to the electrical maintenance and repair, lighting, gas utility and irrigation markets.
The New Berlin building is spurring the development of the new South Moorland Road Business Park.
It features 127 acres west of South Moorland Road, between Small Road and College Avenue, next to Westridge Business Park.
The New Berlin Common Council in February approved a new tax incremental financing district to help finance the new business park.
The proposal calls for the city to spend up to $27.5 million in phases over 15 years as the land is developed. Those funds will be repaid through new property taxes generated by those developments.
The city funds help pay for new sewers, water mains, roads and other public improvements.
Some of the funds also could be used as incentives to attract new development.
The ECM building was developed by Briohn Building Corp.