... a much
larger project is set for the Coating Place, a 31-year-old
company on Paoli Street that specializes in coating or
encapsulating prescription and over-the-counter medicine for
pharmaceutical companies. The company is adding a two-story
space that will increase its production and warehouse
facilities by about 85,000 square feet.
The project gets under way in mid-July and should take about
a year to complete, said company president Tim Breunig. With
the expansion, Coating Place could add up up to 40-45
workers to its current staff of 85 in the next two years, he
said. He added that the company already doubled in size
between 1998 and 2003, thanks to three expansions of its
warehouse and coating facilities.
Coating Place was founded in Verona in 1976 by Harlan Hall,
a former coating laboratory manager at the Wisconsin Alumni
Research Foundation, after Hall purchased the "Wurster Fluid
Bed Coating" technology from the University of Wisconsin
Alumni Research Foundation. Today, the company works with
"dozens of large international companies from throughout the
U.S. and Europe," Breunig said
