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In April, Drew Industries announced plans to invest $12.75 million to renovate and equip four manufacturing
facilities in Goshen and Elkhart and to move its headquarters to Elkhart.The companies received tax abatements from the cities of Goshen and Elkhart.
In addition, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. offered Drew up to $4.3 million in conditional tax credits and up to $200,000 in training grants based on the job-creation plans.
The companies have already begun hiring additional engineers, furniture
assemblers, general laborers, drivers and welders.Incentives played a big role in the company expanding its operations, Lippert said.
"We've got plants and product lines that are being built outside this area," he said. Those plants are profitable and doing OK, he said. "But to have incentives on top of some manufacturing efficiencies moving and consolidating, it makes it more enticing."
One of the efficiencies is that about 80 percent of all RVs in the country are manufactured in northern Indiana, most in the Elkhart County area.
As a supplier, it naturally helps to only have to transport the goods to facilities in the same county, thus cutting transportation
costs....
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