Council Oks Incentives for Mergon Corp Expansion

On Tuesday night, Anderson County Council passed a resolution offering incentives which promises a $4.5 million new investment and additional 22 full-time jobs for Mergon Corporation in Anderson. The company, which already operates in Anderson County and which the county had identified by the code name Project Windermere, has been indentified by the Anderson Observer as the Irish-based business as advanced plastics manufacturer Mergon, which operates on Pearman Dairy Road. The new agreement includes fee-in-lieu-of tax structures for the business and other infrastructure inducements. The average salary for the new jobs will be $13 per hour. 

Burris Nelson. director of economic development for Anderson County, said the company’s economic impact for the first year will be $4.3 million, with a 20-year total community impact of $26 million. 

Nelson said the international company considered moving the current operation which includes 100 jobs, to Eastern Europe or Mexico before deciding to stay in Anderson.

Mergon Corporation is a private company established in 1998 and incorporated in South Carolina.

More information on Mergon expansion here