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Automotive manufacturer supplier plans to invest $18.4M in Henderson, create 48 jobs

Hebron vision company looks to create 90 jobs

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 26, 2016) — Hensens Aluminum, a newly formed automotive manufacturing company that will extrude aluminum components to the automotive industry, is considering investing $18.4 million in locating a facility in Henderson.

The facility would initially create 48 jobs, with a target goal of 75 jobs within four years, at an average hourly salary of $23. The facility would supply customers in the U.S. and Mexico.

Other investments:

  • Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc. is considering investing $10 million in a facility in Hebron that would initially create 90 jobs, more than doubling to 190 jobs in two years at an average hourly salary of $19.77. The company develops and distributes semiconductor manufacturing equipment, measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetarium technology.
  • Statewide Mortgage, LLC, which has offices in Kentucky, Indiana and Georgia, plans to invest $3.4 million in a Louisville operation that will create 10 initial jobs, with a goal of reaching 30 jobs in five years. Jobs would pay an average hourly salary of $40.
  • Brown & Brown of Kentucky, Inc., a provider of insurance and reinsurance products and services to general business, corporate governmental and individual clients, plans to invest $1.5 million to expand operations to Columbia. The move would create 25 jobs at an average salary of $15.38.