Stanley / North Carolina / United States
Blum manufactures hinges, drawers and roll out systems as well as assembly devices for cabinetry. The 400,000-square-foot facility houses a shipping and receiving area, hinge and drawer runner manufacturing, assembly lines, profile-stamping machines, pretreatment and powder-coating lines. There is also an 85-foot-high product storage building with an advanced automated retrieval system with a capacity for 12,000 pallets and a 22,000-square-foot shipping warehouse equipped with automated conveyor equipment. The facility also holds a cabinet shop, samples area and administration offices. Blum is a North American subsidiary of Austrian-based Julius Blum GmbH. Established in 1977, Blum s first location was a warehouse in Hickory, N.C. Two years later, Blum USA moved to a 15-acre site in Stanley, N.C., establishing an assembly and distribution operation that would come to be known as Building Expansion 1.
