Paulina, La. — Asahi/America Inc., a valve and pipe manufacturer based in Lawrence, Mass., opened a newly built fabrication shop in Louisiana to focus on large-scale and complex fluid flow and air handling piping projects.
The 59,000-square-foot facility, which is located in Paulina, near a facility acquired with Performance Plastics Inc. (PPI) in 2018, has been named Asahi/America-PPI and will operate as a division of Asahi/America.
The new facility adds more than 36,000 square feet of space for fabricating piping systems, valves and actuators for water and wastewater treatment, oil and gas, water parks and aquariums, landfills, semiconductor and pharmaceutical manufacturing, and chemical processing.
"Our customers showed us the need to offer a fast response, best-in-class, value-add plastic fabrication offering. In 2019, our board of directors approved the construction project, and today, we're proud to share this facility with our business partners," Daniel S. Anderson, Asahi/America's president and CEO, said in a news release.
The company also has fabrication, machine and assembly shops in its Massachusetts headquarters.