132 Campanelli Industrial Dr. — Approximate Site of Proposed Factory
A company that turns leftover wheat and rice straw into wall and ceiling panels is looking at Brockton as the home for its first U.S. factory, with company executives touring a possible site and local officials predicting roughly 100 jobs once production starts. Durra Panel USA LLC is weighing a warehouse at 132 Campanelli Industrial Drive, where the company would become an anchor tenant in a facility exceeding 300,000 square feet.
Executives from Durra Panel USA toured the Campanelli Industrial Drive site on October 26, according to The Enterprise. The company manufactures construction panels from wheat and rice production leftovers, and if the Brockton plant moves forward, it would be a domestic manufacturing operation, with the paper reporting the company expects to employ about 100 people when the factory opens, a figure attributed to Derek Layfield, founder of the Australian company that originally made Durra Panel and an advisor to the U.S. operation. Layfield also said support companies locating near the factory might create another 1,000 jobs…