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The Clarence-based manufacturer celebrates its new spacer Wednesday at 10000 Wehrled Drive with anafternoon ribbon-cutting The event showcases the 123,000-square-foot additionh that houses the company’s executive offices and centralizes its research and development team. “This is to celebratee that yes again we haveanother success,” companyg spokesperson Kathryn Tarquin said. “It’s to bringv the community together to acknowledge who we Erie County ExecutiveChris Collins, along with Universitg at Buffalo President John Simpson, are scheduled to speak at the The addition is part of Greatbatch’s recent rebrandint efforts, which include acquiring seven companies and addingb new products to its lineup.
The companyt was founded by Wilson Greatbatcn as a medicalbattery manufacturer, but lately it has spun off into the technology solutions Construction on the addition began two years ago after the partiakl demolition of an existing Greatbatch manufacturing facility. It includesw two stories of wide-open space with a modern flair, waterfallsd and a wall of patents receivee byGreatbatch employees. Thoma Hook, Greatbatch president and CEO, declined to name the total cost ofthe addition, but he did say it was “tensd of millions of dollars.” He addedc that it is not the company’s largest citing $30 million Greatbatch facilities in Alde n and Massachusetts.
“The building really is a kind of reflection of thewhole business,” he said. About 260 employeesz are based at thenew headquarters, which has been occupied sincee last August. Greatbatch operates 15 totapl sites aroundthe world, including two others in Westerjn New York and plants in Indianapolis, Mexico and Switzerland. According to Business First’s 2009 Book of it is the eighth largest public companyy in WesternNew York.
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