Italy-based Trelleborg Coated Systems — a supplier of polymer-coated fabrics for industrial applications, and a business division of engineered polymer solutions provider Trelleborg AB, Sweden — is investing $10.6 million over the next four years to expand the Rutherfordton, N.C., operations of its U.S. subsidiary, Trelleborg Coated Systems US Inc. The expansion of the Rutherfordton operations will include the addition of a production line and 76 jobs.
The new line will support Trelleborg Coated Systems' growth in the global aerospace market. The company mainly supplies engineered fabrics for use in aircraft evacuation slides and life rafts.
Trelleborg Coated Systems US has production facilities and sales operations in Spartanburg and in Morristown, Tenn., in addition to its Rutherfordton production facility.
