{"id":3034,"date":"2017-03-29T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planet-laundry\/2017\/03\/29\/continental-girbau-begins-two-phase-expansion-project"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T20:04:39","slug":"continental-girbau-begins-two-phase-expansion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/continental-girbau-begins-two-phase-expansion-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental Girbau Begins Two-Phase Expansion Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgilaundry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continental Girbau Inc.<\/a> recently broke ground on its third facility expansion since 2000. The two-phase project comes as a result of growing sales, product offerings and staff, according to President Mike Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusiness is so strong that we need more space for our team members and product inventory,\u201d Floyd explained. \u201cWe are projecting aggressive expansion throughout the next four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phase one of the building expansion, to be completed May 1, 2017, encompasses a 24,000-square-foot warehouse addition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis extra space will allow Continental to inventory more product, and quickly and efficiently turn around customer product orders,\u201d Floyd said.<\/p>\n<p>Phase two, to be finished by year-end, will provide added warehouse and office space, although the exact square footage hasn\u2019t been finalized.<\/p>\n<p>Along with warehouse expansions, additional offices and conference rooms will be created to accommodate Continental\u2019s growing team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, we\u2019ll increase our labor force by 12 percent,\u201d Floyd added. Similarly, Continental\u2019s parent company \u2013 Girbau S.A., based in Vic, Spain \u2013 recently added approximately 100 new employees.<\/p>\n<p>Continental serves the vended, on-premises, industrial, multi-housing and textile-care laundry markets, with equipment that includes washer-extractors, continuous batch washing systems, dryers, feeders, ironers, folding systems and related machinery.<\/p>\n<p>The facility additions will complement Continental\u2019s current building, which serves as the company\u2019s headquarters for marketing, sales, training, service, warehousing and customer support.<\/p>\n<p>For expansion details and images, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgilaundry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cgilaundry.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continental Girbau Inc. recently broke ground on its third facility expansion since 2000. The two-phase project comes as a result of growing sales, product offerings and staff, according to President Mike Floyd. \u201cBusiness is so strong that we need more space for our team members and product inventory,\u201d Floyd explained. \u201cWe are projecting aggressive expansion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":7032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[9164,10190,9194],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-commercial-laundry","tag-construction","tag-vended-laundry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7033,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions\/7033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}