VPI, Inc. announced the sale of its 100,000-square foot Roemer Road production facility, located at 2730 N. Roemer Road, Appleton, to a local mechanical contractor, August Winter & Sons, Inc., as the final step in streamlining production operations into one facility.
This process started with a 2023 purchase of 150,000 square feet of space on its existing Kensington property to take full control of that campus.
“While VPI has grown and evolved over the years, so has our real estate portfolio. At the end of 2022, we owned or leased nine properties. It was at that point that we established a strategic initiative to streamline our real estate holdings to align with our business needs – both now and into the future. We laid out a vision that included two core real estate hubs, one for production, and one for our many community programs, while maintaining our downtown Appleton Community Outreach Center. The sale of our Roemer production facility and consolidation to our Kensington campus gives us our production hub,” said Tim Riebau, VPI, Inc. president and CEO.
VPI now owns and operates a single 400,000-square-foot production and warehouse facility in Appleton and will include the build out of additional IPA/clean room space to support their customers who have this specific need.
“The sale might seem like a contraction, but we are actually gaining 45,000 square feet of incremental space when it’s all said and done,” said Riebau.
August Winter & Sons officials said the location is ideal for the company and will allow for continued growth.
“Our main facility, which is located less than a quarter mile down the road from VPI’s Roemer Road facility, has been bursting at the seams for the last three plus years. Over that time, our leadership team reviewed many options for expansion, none of which felt quite right. After meeting Tim and walking through the facility, our entire leadership team knew this was the opportunity we had been waiting for,” said said Tim Riebau, VPI, Inc. president and CEO.
“Our current facility consists of 64,000 square feet between office, production and warehouse. Adding this 100,000-square-foot facility fills all our immediate needs and provides room for growth for years to come. We will move our entire sheet metal production, which includes ductwork, tank and other custom fabrication, along with our tool room and shipping and receiving department, to the new facility. Our current shop space will be converted into 100 percent pipe fabrication,” said Glennon.
