Greenville-based American Starlinger-Sahm, Inc (ASSI) is expanding and in the final week of August held a ground breaking ceremony for the construction of its new North American headquarters. The new facility will be located in South Chase Business Park, Fountain Inn, South Carolina, and comprises a total of 23,000 square feet. It will consist of a machine exhibition area, spare parts warehouse and office space for sales and technical support throughout North America. The grand opening is scheduled for late spring 2015.

The two European companies Starlinger & Co (Austria) and Georg Sahm (Germany) are major technology suppliers to the woven plastic packaging, plastic recycling and textile industries. ASSI is owned by Starlinger Export GmbH and handles sales/service activities and spare parts supply for the divisions Starlinger textile packaging, Starlinger recycling technology and Starlinger viscotec as well as for the winder specialist Georg Sahm.  www.starlinger.com; www.sahmwinder.de

 

 

Ground breaking ceremony on 26 August at the new American Starlinger-Sahm site and (below) how it will look on completion.