In business for 10 years, Milburn employs 50 people nationwide and plans to employ five people at the Ocala facility. A Taiwanese toy manufacturing company, HTF USA, recently closed on a parcel across from Hamilton Products. The company produces inflatable toys and furniture. The company is headquartered in Taipei, with a manufacturing plant in Shanghai, China, that employs 2,000 people. Then five years ago our general manager, Alexander Chang, decided to open a North American office.
Land is relatively low here, and there is a good labor force.
Last May, HTF USA opened a sales office in Sarasota that employs 10 people. Lin said the company plans to relocate that sales office to Ocala once the local facility is complete. If everything goes well, we should have our plant open by February 2002,'' he said. The group's next challenge involves working with the city of Ocala on road construction within the industrial park. Dean said the main concerns are traffic flow, impact and concurrency.