LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – More than 200 manufacturing jobs are expected to be created with a new facility in Mercer County.

Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday that Earth Breeze, a producer of environmentally friendly laundry detergent sheets, announced plans to locate a roughly $5.9 million facility in Harrodsburg, creating 226 Kentucky jobs.

The 81,250-square-foot facility will handle multiple aspects of the Earth Breeze production process, including the blending of its proprietary eco-friendly formulation, drying and processing, cutting and packaging, order fulfillment operations, quality control laboratory testing and research and development.

The 226 new positions will span various skill levels and departments, from facility director and production operators to quality control specialists and planning/administrative associates and managers.

The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) has preliminarily approved a 10-year incentive agreement with the company under the Kentucky Business Investment program. The performance-based agreement can provide up to $2.4 million in tax incentives based on the company’s investment of $5.89 million and annual targets of:

• Creation and maintenance of 226 Kentucky-resident, full-time jobs across 10 years; and
• Paying an average hourly wage of $30.96, including benefits, across those jobs.

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