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Manufacturer coming to Janesville

By Jim Leute ( Contact )   August 8, 2008 - 8:39 a.m.

In a summer marked by horrible economic news for Janesville, a new manufacturer is coming to town with plans for a $20 million investment and 90 family-supporting jobs.

LiquiPur Holdings plans to pull out of a Chicago suburb and begin bottling operations Jan. 1 in 62,500 square feet of space in the 250,000-square-foot building owned by Helgesen Holdings on Venture Drive on the city’s south side.

LiquiPur, owned by Fontana businessman Bernhard Kaufmann, also plans to break ground for a 105,000-square-foot manufacturing facility across Venture Drive to the north.

LiquiPur will employ 40 people in a hot-fill beverage production facility in the existing Helgesen building. An additional 50 will work in a state-of-the-art aseptic food and beverage operation to be housed in the planned new building.

LiquiPur specializes in liquid beverages that are nutritional, organic and based on leading-edge technology for recipes and packaging that is environmentally sensitive.

Read more in today's Janesville Gazette.




reader COMMENTS (18)
JCK
Aug 9, 2008 at 3:15 p.m.
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Self employed and never worked a minute for GM, snarley. Never been happier with my life. It's you who seemingly takes pleasure in the suffering and misfortune of others.

hannah
Aug 9, 2008 at 9:39 a.m.
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family unfriendly would be a place that treats you like crap and thinks of you as just a helping hand.
family friendy is they care about you and respect you as an employee. their is a differance if you have ever worked for a place that is unfamily friendly you would know it.

noggi
Aug 9, 2008 at 6:56 a.m.
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>>>>These will be family-friendly jobs,<<<<<

OK. What is a "family-unfriendly" job?

Who dreams up these descriptions?

Are there, for instance "dog-friendly" jobs, or "divorced-friendly" or "in-a-relationship-friendly",-how about "fisherman- friendly",
or wait, "packer-fan-friendly".
or "Cock-a-mamie-friendly"?

snarly
Aug 8, 2008 at 8:17 p.m.
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jck must have worked at the plant and is upset about his life pathetic

Unidentified
Aug 8, 2008 at 5:17 p.m.
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Any new businesses that come to Janesville are a benefit to the community. However, having the ability to hire ninety people makes this announcement even more notable. All members of the community should be welcoming LiquiPur to Janesville. Despite negative comments by an irrelevant few, the workforce in Janesville is hard working, dedicated, and ready to go to work. I’ve seen our workforce first hand in various situations and can say with complete confidence that it first-rate. Welcome to Janesville LiquiPur!

snarly
Aug 8, 2008 at 4:43 p.m.
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this company is a good one to work for everyone who needs a job should apply good luck.

JCK
Aug 8, 2008 at 4:42 p.m.
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Great news like this and yet some still feel the need to take shots at GM workers. You're absolutely pathetic.

snarly
Aug 8, 2008 at 4:36 p.m.
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what no comment's on tinkerb45 gamblerone, O are you one of the GM people who need a job if so here is a chance for you to get a job.and it will not be $27.00 an hour,so if i'm stupid for telling the truth get over it the mighty GM is on the out's.

snarly
Aug 8, 2008 at 4:22 p.m.
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woooooooooo the truth hurt's

gamblerone
Aug 8, 2008 at 4:14 p.m.
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Go away snarly, your getting boring with your stupid coments.

luvujvl
Aug 8, 2008 at 3:18 p.m.
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Does anyone know what brand names they produce?

snarly
Aug 8, 2008 at 3:18 p.m.
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hay now all the GM people have a chance for a job but wait a minute not at $27.00 an hour can they live on less money,hope this company can get good help from janesville workforce.

tinkerb45
Aug 8, 2008 at 3:15 p.m.
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Hopefully they're high paying union jobs that require no skill.

unknown
Aug 8, 2008 at 12:35 p.m.
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Exactly what Janesvile needs to do is to get Manufactures in that dont have to rely on GM this is good news.

farmdude
Aug 8, 2008 at 11:20 a.m.
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Good news indeed.

Purrmaid
Aug 8, 2008 at 10:18 a.m.
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From the article "Move to add 90 jobs" article:

"This is a huge announcement, especially with all of the bad news we've had," city council member Bill Truman said. "These will be family-friendly jobs, and we're ecstatic that they'll be hiring for most of the positions locally."

Some locally hired is better than none. Welcome to Janesville, LiquiPur!

belisamasana
Aug 8, 2008 at 9:16 a.m.
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Good news :)

I wonder how many of the Chicago suburb employees are relocating here and if the 90 jobs will be held by any of them?

moveon24
Aug 8, 2008 at 9:12 a.m.
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Family supporting jobs is an interesting definition of the new jobs to come. It sounds like it was written by someone from Forward Janesville.

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