PZC approves site plan for manufacturing business expansion

WEST HAVEN — An electronics manufacturing company in West Haven plans to expand its operations by adding a pre-fab metallic building to its site on Frontage Road.

The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a site plan from MacDermid Alpha to add a 10,200square-foot, two-story building on the MacDermid Enthone campus at 350 Frontage Road. The building is to be used for office, warehouse, manufacturing and laboratory space.

Richard Park, project manager for MacDermid, declined to discuss details of what services are planned for the site. Zoning Commissioner John Biancur asked why the site plan called the construction “Project Reno”; Park said he could not comment.

A request for comment from a suggested press contact at MacDermid Alpha was not immediately returned.

According to its website, MacDermid Alpha presently manufactures wet chemicals for circuit board manufacturing and wafers, attachment materials and photomasks for semiconductors and soldering and attachment materials for circuit board assembly.

In addition to the building, the company plans on adding a rain garden to the site with Langan Engineering. Engineer Katie Gagnon said native plants will be brought up alongside Frontage Road and the rain garden would be able to hold 960 cubic feet of rainwater before discharge.

Park said he expects it would take about eight months because of supplier shortages for the materials that go into the pre-fab buildings.

PZC Chairwoman Kathleen Hendricks said she and other commissioners did not have many questions at a meeting this week because the applicant presented a detailed plan.

“Any time you guys do come to us the plans are very detailed,” she said.

West Haven Director of Planning Chris Soto said that with PZC approval, the plan would only need to obtain a permit to begin on construction.