The new complex includes four distinct buildings, covering more than 200,000 square feet. The facility will serve as the base of operations for more than 300 of the company’s employees, who will support the company’s manufacturing, quality-control, engineering and supply chain management activities in the region, according to Kinedyne.

“Although the global economy has not completely recovered from the recession, we’ve invested heavily in a huge new production facility,” said James Klausmann II, Kinedyne’s executive vice president.

With a population of 750,000 people, Nantong is a port city located on the delta of the famed Yangtze River. Nantong’s close proximity to Shanghai—a major business center and shipping port—has helped contribute to its growing reputation as an attractive site for multinational corporations doing business in China as part of their global expansion plans.

Kinedyne’s Nantong plant will enable the company to control everything that goes into a Kinedyne product, according to the company. The new facility will support efforts to standardize a broad range of the company’s products for a variety of global markets, the company added.

The plant is equipped with metal-fabrication machines, including multiple coil-fed stamping presses, with capacity from 20 to 350 tons, as well as with wireforming machines, robotic welding and roll-forming equipment. Metal processing and finishing equipment at the plant includes heat treatment and plating lines, deburring operations and an electrocoating (E-coat) paint line.

“All of these new metalworking capabilities, along with an in-house tool and die shop, support an unprecedented expansion of the company’s overall production capacity,” Kinedyne said in a news release. “As an example, many of the hardware products used in Kinedyne strap assemblies—from ratchet, cam and over-center buckles, to a multitude of end fittings—are now produced entirely in the new facility.”