A prominent and growing building components manufacturer has received a green light to build two new production facilities on a 30-acre site in Casa Grande at the intersection of Thornton Road and Ash Avenue.
With a business expanding into Colorado and Texas, as well as parts of the South, FrameTec company manufactures everything from roof and floor trusses to both interior and exterior walls.
Its building components are used in both single and multi-family homes, as well as in hotels and a variety of wood-framed structures.
FrameTec purchased the site in Casa Grande last fall for some $6.1 million.
The company wants to build two separate buildings that will comprise a total of 254,000 square feet, both designed to help FrameTec keep up with a demand to help build some 7,000 homes a year.
The project is expected to cost around $150 million.
The company already has a 110,000-square-foot headquarters in Camp Verde.
In a statement, Kyle Brock, FrameTec’s chief executive officer, said that the new facilities will provide “significant capacity and innovation to the building industry, while providing homebuilders and general contractors with a ‘one-stop shop’ as a turnkey framing provider.”
By building the new facilities in Casa Grande, FrameTec is expected to double its current manufacturing capacity.
Plans for the project were approved earlier this month by the City of Casa Grande Planning and Zoning Commission.
Work on the first phase of the Casa Grande facilities is expected to begin sometime this fall, with the first plant completed two years from now. The second facility is slated for completion in 2027.
By Garry Boulard
