HICKORY – New Jersey-based Gusmer Enterprises will build a 135,000 square foot manufacturing facility that will produce liquid filtration media and devices for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries in Hickory.
The firm is investing $38.2 million and creating 73 jobs with an average salary of $44,000 by 2023 in the process, the company announced Monday alongside the Catawba County Economic Development Corporation and the City of Hickory.
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The company selected Hickory ahead of many other locations that it considered, said Marla Gusmer Jeffrey, company president, and is necessary because of a growing demand for its filtration products, some of which are used in the production of COVID-19 treatments.