Medline Industries Inc., which bills itself as America’s fastest-growing privately-held maker and distributor of health care supplies and services, has bought 19 acres in Mills Business Park where it is expected to build a 300,000-square-foot distribution center and eventually employ up to 35 people, according to Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce.
The Mundelein, Ill., health care products distributor is the first company to commit to the business park, which is being developed by the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation and DeHoff Family Foundation, the chamber of commerce said in a release.
Medline–a direct competitor of Cardinal Health in Dublin, Ohio–is excited about the Canton, Ohio, project but hasn’t yet worked out its details, said Jerreau Beaudoin, the company’s communications director. Medline makes and distributes more than 100,000 products–from gloves to custom procedure trays to surgical instruments–to hospitals, extended-care facilities, surgery centers, home-care dealers, dialysis centers, home health agencies and, retail and other health care markets.
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The Illinois company has 10 manufacturing plants in North America and more than two dozen joint-venture manufacturing plants worldwide. It also has 34 distribution center –and counting–that supply facilities in the United States, as well as more than 20 other countries. Beaudoin said his company has plans to expand at several locations, including Canton, this year.
Medline closed on its $1.135 million land purchase on March 2, according to the Canton Repository. The $13.7 million project–including an energy efficient and environmentally friendly building–is expected to start this spring and includes millions of dollars in state, Stark County and Canton tax incentives and grants, the Repository reported.
