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Forsyth Commissioners Get a Look at Economic Development Activities

The Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce offered a tour of Trox and Automation Direct in Cumming and CSA International and Motovario in Alpharetta.

The Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce today gave the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners an overview of the community’s recent economic development activities, according to the county's website. Officials took a guided tour of these local facilities:

Trox USA Inc., 4305 Settingdown Circle, Cumming

Part of the German-based "technological leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of components and systems for air conditioning and ventilation," Trox USA's 36,500 square-foot factory and facilities in Cumming officially opened and were dedicated in 2009 and was  home to 35 full- and part-time employees involved in the marketing, sale and manufacture of components and systems for indoor ventilation and air conditioning, according to a Trox Technik release.

The factory manufactures chilled beams in addition to under floor fan terminals, raised floor diffusers and displacement diffusers, and acts as a research and test facility equipped with the latest data acquisition and measurement technologies to allow mock-up testing for the most critical room air distribution applications.

Motovario, 1440 Bluegrass Lakes Parkway, Alpharetta

Motovario, the Italian designer and manufacturer of electric motors, gearmotors and motoreducers for industrial and civil use assembles, warehouses, services and sells its products in Alpharetta, according to its website. The U.S. subsidiary based in Forsyth County supplies the American, Canadian and Mexican markets.

CSA International, 6215 Shiloh Crossing, Alpharetta

Part of CSA Group, which provides services to businesses, industries and consumers worldwide in more than 50 areas of technology, including new technologies such as electric vehicles, alternative fuels, nano materials, wind and solar energy and fuel cells, CSA International performs product testing and certification for electrical and electronic, gas-fired products, plumbing and a wide range of other products, including personal protective equipment, according to its website

AutomationDirect, 3505 Hutchinson Road, Cumming

The direct seller of automation and industrial control products—with its primary products falling into the categories of programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, operator interface panels, variable frequency drives and motors—AutomationDirect was the first company of its kind to successfully use a direct sales catalog, according to its website

Now also employing an online superstore and 800 number, AutomationDirect also carries numerous other products such as sensors, pushbuttons, motors, enclosures, wire, temperature and process controllers, and much more. 

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