USA - Sauder Woodworking, a leading manufacturer of RTA furniture,  is leasing space in a brand new 9,000-square-meter spec building in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area that is expected to open and begin production in September.

The company already had moved its Wieland healthcare furniture division from Grabill to New Haven, so another site there made sense.

The move is part of a strategy to increase its domestic output and also tap into a larger work force not currently available in its nearby headquarters in Archbold, Ohio.

Sauder feels the ready to assemble furniture market will stay strong even after the demand for desks returns to normal as more and more people buy furniture online that can be shipped quickly and efficiently.

Fort Wayne is about an hour west of its Archbold headquarters, production and distribution facilities, which employ about 2,500 workers.

Raw materials will flow into the new production facility in Indiana from different suppliers. After the goods are produced, they will be shipped to Archbold, which has about 130,000 square meters of warehouse and distribution facilities as part of its overall 400,000-square-meter campus.

From Archbold the product will ship to customers within typical lead times they are currently accustomed to from the stock facility.