Roppe Holding Co. (RHC), the parent company to Roppe and Flexco, has acquired the 500,000-square-foot facility located adjacent to its original facility in Fostoria, Ohio.
“Acquiring this facility is part of our long-term business strategy to be the leading provider of domestically manufactured high-quality resilient flooring products and accessories,” states Bart Rogers, RHC vice president of sales and marketing. “We fully expect this investment to provide additional support to our distributor, national account and retail partners being challenged to meet the exploding commercial demand for design-driven products. We will be uniquely positioned to avoid the production constraints and pricing uncertainty non-US flooring manufacturers are facing today.”
The intended use of the facility will initially be focused on new lines to support its wall base and accessories business as well as housing the corporate headquarters. A training and technical center is planned to ensure flooring education for the sales teams, customer service teams and distributor partners’ sales, specification and marketing teams. As well, the vision for this space is to create a design solutions environment for architects, designers, contractors and installers from within the industry. Additional manufacturing space will support its partnership with NOX Corp. by housing new lines dedicated to meet the growing demand for domestically produced next-generation LVT.