Mayor Scott Avedesian and Governor Lincoln Almond will join Herff Jones president and CEO Bob Potts and vice president – general manager/scholastic division Joe Slaughter for a groundbreaking ceremony at the company’s new Warwick site, 150 Vine Street, Thursday. Other city officials have been invited to attend, and approximately 50 Herff Jones employees will be on hand for the ceremony.
Herff Jones, a local jewelry maker, will construct a $9 million facility on land to be purchased from Ciba Specialty Chemicals, once known as Ciba-Geigy, which had office and warehouse space in Warwick to support their dye and other manufacturing operations across the river in Cranston. Ciba closed its operations in 1986, and under the supervision of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Environmental Management, has been working to clean up residual contamination from the site. Herff Jones has a purchase and sales agreement to procure the property. The land received a clean bill of health from the two agencies earlier this year.
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Plans are to build a new facility on 10 of the 25 acres in Warwick to house the company’s ring manufacturing operations that will be transferred from the Herff Jones jewelry plant in Providence.
