Existing Industry

Industry Spotlight: EFACEC

 

Effingham County facility will fill next-generation power needs throughout U.S. and Canada.

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and local dignitaries joined EFACEC Group CEO Luís Filipe Pereira and a large delegation from Portugal in April 2010 to celebrate the grand opening of the company’s Effingham County manufacturing facility, its first plant and the only one of its kind in the U.S. EFACEC Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of power substations, is investing $130 million in the new facility and will create up to 700 jobs.

“EFACEC’s position as a global industry leader in power generation industry adds to Georgia’s energy résumé,” said Governor Sonny Perdue. “The fact that Georgia can easily provide the highly-skilled workers EFACEC needs is a testimony to the state’s ability to host major investments in one of our economy’s most important industries.”

“With the opening of EFACEC’s Effingham County plant, for the first time in more than two decades American utility customers will have access to the most reliable, highest quality, state-of-the art transformers in the world – made in the U.S.A. by skilled American workers,” said EFACEC CEO Luís Filipe Pereira.

The new facility makes core form, shell form and mobile substations to replace aging power transformers throughout the North American market and meet new renewable power mandates for the U.S. electric grid. By building and shipping its products from the Effingham County facility, EFACEC hopes to capture 11 percent of the North American market. The company will reach its markets quickly through Georgia’s comprehensive logistics network, including the Georgia ports, the fastest-growing in the U.S.; 5,000 miles of railroad, the largest in the Southeast; and 15 major interstate highways.

According to research from the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), EFACEC’s Effingham County facility could generate more than 1,500 direct and indirect jobs in the region by 2017.

Georgia Quick Start has worked in close partnership with the company to ready EFACEC’s workforce, providing training and simulations on site in both core skills and the highly-specialized technical skills needed to hand-build power substations. Quick Start has been recognized as the top workforce development program in the U.S, and is helping train skilled assembly workers, electrical engineering specialists, and other high-tech positions.

“The international nature of the company, and its high-tech and high-wage attributes, have been a source of pride during the past 18 months, and have awakened the community to the great potential that sector holds for us,” said John A. Henry, CEO of the Effingham County Industrial Development Authority (ECIDA). “EFACEC has already stimulated reinvestment and economic activity in our local businesses, and is heavily involved in community activities as it establishes itself as a great corporate citizen in Effingham County.” The ECIDA provided tax abatements, free land, Industrial Revenue Bonding and site work for the new facility.

 

 


Additional Effingham County Industries:

Manufacturers

  • Adams Warnock 
  • Atlantic Track & Turnout Company 
  • Coastal Concrete 
  • Container Maintenance Corp.
  • Diamond Concrete 
  • Edwards Interiors 
  • Efacec Power Transformers,  Efacec USA
  • Exley Lumber
  • Georgia Pacific 
  • Georgia Power Company
  • Georgia Power – Plant McIntosh 
  • Hanson Pipe & Precast Co.
  • Lafarge North America Inc
  • Linphos Chemical
  • Mackinaw Power
  • Omega Steel Inc.
  • Premier Concrete LLC
  • Silver Lake Systems & Design Inc. 
  • Spatial Engineering
  • Studier Kart Supply Inc.
  • TEMCOR, Inc.

Distribution

  • Ardry Trading Company
  • Bonded Services Warehouse Inc.
  • Flint River Services Inc.
  • Georgia Pacific Warehouse 
  • Sampco of Georgia
  • ValuePart Inc.

Logistics

  • Coastal Logistics Group