March 2015
| Business World
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KRAIBURG TPE is a specialist in thermoplastic elastomer
compounds (TPE), providing clients with customized prod-
ucts and solutions that specifically cater to their individual
needs. KRAIBURG is a global leader in their field, with inter-
national production facilities in Germany, USA and Malaysia
as well as a vast number of sales branches worldwide, which
includes their recently incorporated operation in Mexico to
cater to the Central American market.
Katherine Olano is the Distribution and Marketing Special-
ist at the company's American production facility. She has
witnessed KRAIBURG TPE's steady growth and expansion
over the years and is currently preparing to transition into an
upgraded facility which broke ground in November of 2014.
"We are actually in the process of moving from our current
facility – which is a leased facility in Duluth, Georgia – into
our own building in Buford, Georgia," she says. "We're quickly
running out of production capacity here, so the new facility is
going to allow us to bring in a third commercial production
line in addition to our two current commercial production
lines and our sample and development line. This will allow us
to grow our business from about $23 to $25 million right over
