By Rachel Pritchett
rpritchett@kitsapsun.com
360-475-3783
BREMERTON — Profile Composites, Inc., Canada-based maker of
lightweight composite products, is expanding to Bremerton, with
early indications it could create as many as 200 new jobs, many of
them for disabled veterans.
Company President Geoff Wood, speaking Thursday at a Decision
Makers Breakfast, made formal announcement of the company’s
arrival, saying the welcome received in Bremerton, as well as close
proximity to other developers and manufactures of lightweight
composite materials, helped him in his decision.
The company and local economic-development leaders have yet to
release details about the company’s arrival, but Wood said the
company will manufacture high-tech, foldable wheelchairs and
high-tech crutches at its new facility.
The Profile Composites activity will be in the Olympic View
Industrial Park in half of a building also occupied by General
Dynamics Electric Boat. The park is owned and run by the Port of
Bremerton.
Wood, 54, told the gathering of business, political and educational
leaders that the carbon composite-products industry has gone
through its growing pains with the Boeing 787 and other projects.
But now, he said, the new materials can be used in “anything that
moves” where greater strength and less weight is desired. That’s
especially true in automobiles, he said.
“That’s where carbon fiber-composite industry is today,” he
said.
The company is based in Sidney, British Columbia.
More information will be coming as this story develops.
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