Farmington’s CT Spring & Stamping expanding to Southington
Steve Dicke is president of Connecticut Spring & Stamping Corp. (Right) A historic photo of Founder Bertram Youmans and current CEO Peter Youmans.
A Farmington-based precision manufacturer of metal springs, stamping and components has acquired a Southington property as it aims to expand capacity to meet the growing needs of a major medical customer.
Connecticut Spring & Stamping (CSS) purchased 85 Robert Porter Road in Southington on Dec. 17 for $1.65 million, according to property records.
CSS has 470 employees based out of two properties totaling 200,000 square feet in Farmington, where the company has been headquartered since 1960, and it has no plans to leave town, CSS President Steve Dicke said in an interview Wednesday.
“It’s just further expansion for us,” Dicke said. “Our business has been pretty strong.”
CSS plans to relocate some of its Farmington equipment and workforce to the 32,000-square-foot building that sits on 2.5 acres and is also investing in new machines and hires.
The building needs a power upgrade and some other renovations and fixes, so CSS is aiming to be up and running between March and May of 2021 with a team of 10 to 15 employees, Dicke said.
He said the company has been sniffing around for an expansion site for the past year or so, and its management team liked the wide open layout, loading docks and other features at the Robert Porter Road building.
“We’ll be bringing in large amounts of raw material and shipping out large amounts of product,” he said. “It’s a great property for that.”
Selling the property was Bootstrap Real Estate I LLC, a Pennsylvania-entity linked to industrial robotics provider Clear Automation, which had operated at the address since the 1990s, according to records.
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