Armstrong On-shoring Manufacturing

Armstrong World Industries announced that it will be on-shoring the manufacture of its scraped engineered hardwood flooring to the Somerset, Kentucky facility. The company will close down the facility located in Kunshan, China, which is where the products are currently made. Production in Kunshan will stop on September 30, 2014. After the Kunshan facility is closed, it will be put up for sale.
Armstrong Flooring CEO Tom Mangas said that the company is moving the facility to Kentucky because the cost of freight and labor in China is raising. The company said that producing the product in the country where they mainly sell it, will be more cost efficient. By moving the production to Kentucky, the cost inflation of raw materials will be offset, and they company can keep up with design trends and service requirements at a faster rate.
Recently scraped engineered hardwood flooring has grown in demand in the United States over the last few years. The first few lines of the scraped engineered hardwood flooring that will be produced at the new facility are the Frontier Hickory, Century Farm, Rural Living, and Legacy Manor in that order.
Armstrong has added close to twenty jobs to Somerset with the American Scrape production. The change from Kunshan when finished in 2015, will bring almost another 80 jobs to the Somerset, Kentucky facility.

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