A company nationally known for its production of high-tensile steel wire nets wants to build a 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in north central New Mexico.
Geobrugg North America, which was founded in 1951, hopes to build the plant on roughly 13.5 acres it has purchased in the town of Algodones near its corporate headquarters.
Because the expansion will result in an expanded workforce for the company of some sixty people, the project has received $500,000 in Local Economic Development Act funding.
The expansion, said Geobrugg chief executive officer Andrea Roth in a statement, “will give us the potential to meet the growing demand in the market and offer possibilities for other products from the Brugg Group, such as electric vehicle charging cable or wire ropes for cable cars.”
The company, which moved to Algodones from its previous headquarters in Santa Fe in 2011, received $50,000 in Sandoval County in funding support when it added 7,000 square feet to what was its existing 16,000-square-foot building in 2017.
The larger Brugg Group is based in Switzerland and operates 19 production facilities and 32 sales offices across the globe.
Last year the company was involved in a complicated project seeing the building of 20,000 square feet of pinned mesh designed to stabilize an eroding slope damaged by historic flooding in the Yellowstone National Park.
The company has also been known for its manufacture of rock fall fencing,
By Garry Boulard
