Major Italian Manufacturer Selects Paulding as New Headquarters

Paulding County Economic Development (PCED) and RONCHI America, LLC. announced Monday that RONCHI Mario, S.p.A of Milan, Italy, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high speed flow meter based liquid filling and automated packaging machinery for the personal care, house hold cleaner and pharmaceutical industries has selected Paulding County for its new U.S. headquarters location. The facility will include RONCHI America’s administrative, sales, spare parts, service, assembly, warehouse and shipping/receiving operations.

Michele Falsini, Director of U.S. Operations for RONCHI America, LLC. said the decision to locate in Paulding County was an easy one. “RONCHI America required a location that was convenient and accessible for our U.S. and Canadian customers. The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Hiram's ideal location just outside of Atlanta made it the right choice for our U.S. market expansion plans. The newly opened Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport also offers our customers the option to use corporate air travel for simple and direct business travel to Paulding County. We also required an area that offered a skilled workforce capable of facilitating our growth in North America, as well as a community that was pro-business.

Paulding County met and exceeded all of these requirements. I want to thank Jamie Gilbert (PCED Executive Director) and Tommie Graham (Paulding County Post 3 Commissioner) for their assistance, support and guidance that they have provided to RONCHI America throughout our site selection process and continue to provide for the startup of operations. Their interest to our inquiries and their prompt support proved instrumental in our selection of Paulding County and Hiram.”

Established more than 40 years ago in Italy by Mario Ronchi, RONCHI is a family owned business that has developed an impressive worldwide customer base that includes many major companies such as Procter and Gamble, Unilever, L'OREAL and Johnson & Johnson. RONCHI America’s new operation will be located at 63 Duncan Circle in Hiram. The company purchased the 10,000 square foot building on April 16 and expects to be operational by the end of July.

RONCHI America plans to employ ten associates within the first twelve months and that number is expected to increase to thirty-five as additional manufacturing and service capabilities are introduced to the facility.

“On behalf of the Paulding County Board of Commissioners, Paulding Chamber of Commerce, Cities of Dallas and Hiram, and Paulding County Industrial Building Authority we are very pleased and excited that RONCHI America has chosen our community as its new home.”, said Jamie Gilbert, PCED’s Executive Director. Gilbert added, “RONCHI is an outstanding international company and a leader in the packaging equipment industry. Their equipment is among the finest in the industry which is why many of the world’s most prestigious corporations turn to RONCHI for their bottling & liquid filling solutions. RONCHI America and Interroll’s new Regional Center of Excellence that will open in October are confirmation that Paulding is an outstanding location for both international businesses and the machinery and equipment industry.” Gilbert thanked Commissioner Graham, the Paulding Chamber of Commerce, City of Hiram, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Department of Economic Development and Georgia Department of Labor for their assistance throughout the RONCHI America recruitment process.

The RONCHI America announcement is among a number of projects that have been announced

in Paulding since the creation of PCED in March 2011. In the last eighteen months the organization has facilitated eight projects including Swiss based Interroll’s Regional Center of Excellence which is currently under construction at the Paulding Commerce Park and Pittsburgh based film support unit Haddad’s new Southeast U.S. operation at the Dallas Industrial Park. Gilbert said several more projects will be announced in the coming weeks.