Tambrands spends $4.6M on safety upgrades at Auburn plant
Two major safety upgrades at Auburn’s Tambrands’ factory, with a cost of $4.6 million, are the latest in a total $11 million in expansion and upgrades this year at the site.
The Procter & Gamble-owned site, which produces 9 million tampons a day, completed a 33,000-square-foot, $6.2 million addition earlier this year at the 530,000-square-foot plant at 2879 Hotel Road. That expansion gave it room to add two production lines.
The latest upgrades include a just-completed $1.85 million pump house to increase fire safety at the site and a $2.75 million delivery and parking area for loading and unloading, which plant officials say will increase safety, the Lewiston Sun Journal reported.
The expansion earlier this year made the fire protection upgrade necessary, Rick Malinowski, the plant's supply network operations manager, told the Sun Journal. The pump house has Internet access and a generator, he said.
The new “drop lot,” which has access on Kittyhawk Avenue and is secure, including a guard house, is expected to be completed next spring.
The plant is the leading North American producer of the Tampax Pearl product, which generated $288.7 million in sales in 2016, more than twice its leading competitor.
The factory employs 400 people. A 50,000-square-foot expansion in 2012 added three production lines.
The upgrade is the latest in nearly $400 million Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has invested in the plant since it bought it in 1997.
Production is not the plant’s only role — there is also a machine shop, engineering and quality labs, and it is a leading site for the development of Tampax product research.
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