Behr America Expands Troy Headquarters Campus

Behr America broke ground this week on a $8.5-million, three-story, 69,000-square-foot office building that will increase the overall size of its four-year-old North American headquarters and technical center by more than 75 percent. The second major expansion of the company’s Troy, MI, location in three years, the new building will be constructed on a 2.3-acre site that is adjacent to Behr America's current headquarters campus. When completed in early 2007, the building will house nearly 270 Behr employees who are now working in rented facilities in the area. This will allow for further engineering and program-management job growth over the next several years.

TROY, MI — Behr America broke ground this week on a $8.5-million, three-story, 69,000-square-foot office building that will increase the overall size of its four-year-old North American headquarters and technical center by more than 75 percent.

The second major expansion of the company’s Troy, MI, location in three years, the new building will be constructed on a 2.3-acre site that is adjacent to Behr America’s current headquarters campus. When completed in early 2007, the building will house nearly 270 Behr employees who are now working in rented facilities in the area. This will allow for further engineering and program-management job growth over the next several years.

According to Frank Mueller, president and CEO of Behr America, the company has experienced steady growth since 2002, with an increase in its headquarters-and-technical staff from 100 to nearly 550 employees.

Behr’s technical center in Troy includes a $15-million, high-technology climatic wind tunnel which opened in 2004. It enables Behr researchers and product-development engineers to test air-conditioning and engine-cooling systems with extreme precision in all categories of cars and trucks under any climate or road condition. The facility also is used by other suppliers and automakers. The new facility will include offices, a conference center and an additional testing lab area.

For more information about Behr, go to: www.behrgroup.com.

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