By: Ivy Hughes
Emergency vehicle product provider SoundOff Signal, is investing $6.1 million over the next seven years to expand its Jamestown Charter Township facility.
The expansion will accommodate SoundOff Signal’s new project, which involves the production of Hilux LED lighting systems. SoundOff Signal plans to provide Hilux for parking lights, streetlights and municipal lights, among other markets.
“Our experience with emergency vehicles and LED technology combined
with our experience in design lighting, propelled us into this new area
of green lighting,” says Mark Litke, president and CEO of SoundOff
Signal.
SoundOff Signal plans to add 100 jobs over the next seven years to
accommodate the new project. The state approved a $1.4 million tax
credit over seven years to help SoundOff Signal defray project costs.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) will also provide a $25,000 job-training grant.
“I would say the talent here is good,” says Thomas Roe, SoundOff
Signal CFO. “It’s an emerging industry so we’re doing things people
haven’t done.”
Roe says SoundOff Signal was looking to move to China.
“We’re trying to launch a product quickly and it helps using in
house talent to do that,” Roe says about SoundOff Signal’s decision to
stay in the state.
Source: Chelsea Nimiac, DP Company
Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains, a sister publication of Rapid Growth covering growth in Lansing, Michigan.
Deborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at [email protected].
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