Future Foam shares plan for Randolph site
Mar. 9—ARCHDALE — A High Point company plans to expand its operations south after getting about 170 acres of mostly rural land rezoned to accommodate a light industrial use.
Future Foam plans to use at least part of the site between Tom Hill Road and U.S. 311 for a fabrication facility that would fashion foam components for bedding, furniture and medical applications.
Randy Reynolds with Future Foam told Archdale leaders at a recent zoning hearing that foam made at the company's High Point plant will be shipped to the proposed new facility, where it will be cut to different sizes and shapes to make other products.
The company has not announced a timeline or any details about development plans.
The Archdale City Council approved the company's request to rezone two parcels totaling about 104 acres from single-family residential to light industrial.
The properties are immediately south of multiple parcels totaling about 66 acres that Archdale rezoned to light industrial last year at Future Foam's request.
All of the sites are in Archdale's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
City Manager Zeb Holden said no annexation request or development proposal has been submitted for any of the newly rezoned property.
He said some neighbors have raised concerns about potential impacts from having an industrial operation in the area, but the zoning granted by the city does not allow the company to do any manufacturing or similar intensive use.
Reynolds said there would be little impact neighbors could notice.
"We will not make the foam itself on this proposed facility, so we won't have any chemicals on the site or store any chemicals on the site," Reynolds said. "There will be no emissions. There will be no noise heard outside the building. This is a very environmentally friendly and community friendly operation."
Future Foam's Prospect Street plant in High Point converts raw materials into flexible polyurethane foam for use in furniture cushions, mattresses and other products.
The foam is poured at the High Point plant and cut and processed at its Archdale manufacturing facility on Comanche Drive.
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