SCHROEPPEL — SAM North America, LLC, a supplier of converting machinery for package printing, specialty coating, and extrusion coating and laminating, is operating in a new, 10,000-square-foot headquarters. It’s located in the Oswego County Industrial Park at 31 County Route 59 in the town of Schroeppel. SAM North America is a subsidiary of Sung An […]
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SCHROEPPEL — SAM North America, LLC, a supplier of converting machinery for package printing, specialty coating, and extrusion coating and laminating, is operating in a new, 10,000-square-foot headquarters.
It’s located in the Oswego County Industrial Park at 31 County Route 59 in the town of Schroeppel.
SAM North America is a subsidiary of Sung An Machinery Co., Ltd., which is headquartered in South Korea. It also has a European subsidiary, according to the SAM website.
The new Oswego County facility includes an extrusion-technology center, for which the firm held an inauguration ceremony on Jan. 21.
The extrusion-technology center specializes in the development and evaluation of materials and process techniques to improve flexible packaging and industrial coated and laminated products.
The company in 2010 formed SAM North America in Granby as a sales and support organization, says Edward (Ed) Lincoln, vice president of sales at SAM North America.
As the business started growing in the region, the firm’s customers began asking for more and more product development and process support, says Lincoln.
“At that point in time, we decided to buy a big building. Stop renting, [and] buy a building of our own and install an extrusion-technology center in that building,” he added.
SAM North America bought a building in the Oswego County Industrial Park in Schroeppel.
“The value of the building and the machine is close to $3 million,” Lincoln says, noting the figure also included the cost to acquire the land. “We bought additional acreage for future expansion.”
It houses SAM’s new extrusion coating, lamination, and cast film pilot machine, he added.
The firm closed on the building in July 2013 and the renovations started soon after.
SAM North America self-financed the project, but it also has an established line of credit through KeyBank, Lincoln says.
The Oswego County Industrial Development Agency also provided tax incentives for the effort, he adds.
SAM North America currently has six full-time employees, Lincoln says. The firm also hopes to add between two and four additional full-time workers in the next six months.
The firm generated “double-digit growth” in each of its first three years in North America, according to Lincoln, who projects similar revenue growth in 2014.
He declined to name any of the firm’s customers, saying the company is tied in to “so many confidentiality agreements.” But he described them as multi-national coating and laminating companies.
“They’re big,” he says.
When asked if any of the firm’s customers have operations in Central New York, Lincoln indicated the region has companies to which SAM North America would sell products, but they’re not customers yet.
Product line
SAM, a machinery manufacturer, focuses on three product areas. They include extrusion coating and laminating machines, solution coating and laminating machines, and rotogravure printing machines.
Extrusion coating and laminating machines produce the flexible packaging for products such as croutons and potato chips.
“We take the paper, the films, the foils and then we melt different various polymers and laminate those to give it some sort of functional structure,” Lincoln says.
Its solution coating and laminating machines are used to apply coatings on masking tape, wall-covering paper, and window film.
Lincoln also discussed their printing presses.
“Those would be the machines that we manufacture that do all the printing and put the nice graphics on the package on most of the flexible packaging lines, flexible packages you see in a grocery store,” he says.
Citing continued growth in the plastics industry, Lincoln said SAM’s customers had a need for focusing on product development to enhance their goods.
“So, we decided to build this machine to help them in their R&D efforts for their packaging requirements, but also to promote the sales of our machines,” he says.
Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com
