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Vertical integration to add materials production
Proctor & Gamble Co. (P&G) has begun a $65 million, 18,000 square foot expansion to a laundry detergent plant in Lima, according to company officials.
Fluor Corp., from Texas, is the general contractor for this project, which is expected to take about two years, according to Jeff LeRoy, P&G spokesperson.
"We have been redesigning our entire North American supply chain for about three years, and that supply chain is anything from getting raw materials to our plants, to manufacturing those materials into products, and then distributing those products to our retail customers," he said. "We have been designing that whole process, making it more effective, and also enabling us to get products to retailers on their shelves 80% of the time within one day of the product being manufactured. As we do this, and we have been doing this for a couple of years, it causes us to look for places where we can be more efficient in our manufacturing, where we can leverage our economies of scale. And one of the things we can do...