Holland Township company expects to boost employment by serving liquid transport industry

A Holland Township manufacturer may add up to 270 jobs after its recent diversification to produce innovative shipping containers for a Texas company. The Texas company was attracted to the region because of West Michigan’s manufacturing reputation.

According to excerpts from the story:

A new flexi-tank assembly for liquid transport is just the new sort of opportunity Integrated Fabric Resource was looking for. Since the early 1990s, the Holland Township-based company has focused on returnable-based fabric packaging for the auto industry. The company was looking for ways to diversify because more than 90 percent of its business is currently with the struggling auto industry.  Then Integrated Fabric Resource was approached by Houston, Texas-based Environment Packing Technology to produce flexi-tank assemblies for shipping bulk liquids, according to Integrated Fabric Resource President Doug Buma.  “What a flexi-tank allows you to do is take a standard overseas shipping container and change it into a tanker,” Buma told MiBiz. “It’s a more efficient way of shipping bulk liquids.”

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