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Church & Dwight Breaks Ground on $150M Facility

YORK COUNTY, PA-The company is consolidating and relocating manufacturing and distribution from its current location in North Brunswick, NJ.

By Brianne Harrison | Updated on September 17, 2008

YORK COUNTY, PA-Church & Dwight Co. Inc. broke ground on its new $150 million Arm & Hammer laundry detergent manufacturing facility and distribution center here. The company acquired the 232-acre site with the help of CB Richard Ellis, which is also overseeing construction.

The 1.1-million-sf facility is being developed by First Industrial Realty Trust Inc. and general contractor the Norwood Co. with oversight from CB Richard Ellis’ project management group, led by managing director James Carter. Carter tells GlobeSt.com that the facility will be used to manufacture Arm & Hammer’s concentrated laundry detergent, which uses less water in its manufacture and is smaller and easier to ship than conventional detergents, thus fitting it into the company’s aim to be environmentally friendly.

“Church & Dwight realized back in the 1970s that phosphorus in laundry soap was detrimental to the environment, so they changed the formula,” says Carter. “They were green before green was popular. The whole business plan for this building is based on the fact that they have to provide a quality product to the consumer that uses less water to make and less gas to ship.”

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