50+ Industrial Companies Decided to Choose Chester for their Success

Chester County’s business attraction efforts foster economic diversity, and the county is home to more than 50 manufacturers across industrial sectors, including Giti Tire USA, Boise Cascade, Carolina Poly, SunFiber, and ATI Specialty Materials.

Existing Manufacturers

Advanced Materials

Faddis Concrete Products
Footprint
GAF Corporation
Guardian Glass
ShayoNano
SunFiber
Synthomer: OMNOVA Solutions

Chemicals

CA Specialties
Carolina Poly
Chemtrade
Jones Hamilton
LBB Specialties: Custom Ingredients
Mississippi Lime
Specialty Polymers
The Scotts Company

Metals

ATI Specialty Materials
Marathon Abrasive Company
Newport Steel
Outokumpu Stainless, Inc.
Porter Warner Industries
Rolled Alloys
ThyssenKrupp: Ken-Mac Metals
West Penn Testing Group

Rubber + Plastics + Wood

Boise Cascade
Catawba Plastics
Giti Tire USA
Ring Container Technologies
RKW Klerk’s Inc.
Roseburg

Industry Feature

giti

Giti’s 1.7 million square-foot facility in South Carolina began production in October, 2017, delivering American engineered and American made tires .

Top Manufacturing Location Quotients

Manufacturing is a thriving industry in Chester County. The chart below details manufacturing sub-sectors where the County ranks vastly higher than US industrial averages.

NAICS Code
NAICS Subsector
Jobs
LQ
327 Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing 760 26.96
326 Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing 1,305 25.66
331 Primary Metal Manufacturing 378 14.48
321 Wood Product Manufacturing 395 14.24
322 Paper Manufacturing 274 10.94

As of Q1 2020