Baltimore County’s Tradepoint Atlantic will add a 120,000-square-foot building for Glen Burnie’s INEOS Pigments, one of North America’s biggest manufacturers of titanium dioxide, used in products like paper and plastic, Tradepoint Atlantic announced in a news release.
The 3,300-acre shipping hub located at the former Bethlehem Steel mill in Sparrows Point is expecting to finish the space by the summer, the release said. The facility will house administrative, lab and distribution work for INEOS Pigments, and employ more than 30 people, according to the release.
INEOS Pigments has more than 23,000 employees worldwide and had $61 billion in sales in 2019, according to the release.
“Tradepoint Atlantic’s ability to consistently expand into new fields and industries all while creating new jobs is exactly why they continue to outperform expectations year after year,” Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said in the release. “In what has been an incredibly challenging year for everyone, seeing new jobs and partnerships like this come to fruition is great news.”
As of June, the redevelopment had created 8,000 jobs, and has a goal of creating 11,000 permanent jobs “at full buildout,” the release said.
Tradepoint Atlantic has many big-name tenants doing warehouse and distribution work, from Amazon and Under Armour to FedEx and Home Depot. In April, Tradepoint Atlantic announced that Amazon was planning to open a distribution center ahead of the holiday season for shipping large items like furniture.
In October, the industrial center in Baltimore County announced it was getting about $10 million in federal funding to help with development, including modernizing rail lines and adding an import and export terminal.
Aaron Tomarchio, Tradepoint Atlantic’s senior vice president of corporate affairs, has said that the coronavirus pandemic isn’t slowing its development goals.
Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. said that “the expansion will provide opportunities for our working families,” in the release. “We’re proud to welcome INEOS Pigments to Baltimore County and thank them for continuing to invest in our region.”