Hampton Company Moves Jobs Back to America

U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-NH, was in Hampton on Aug. 5, to celebrate a ribbon cutting at AdTech, a Hampton company that creates hot melt adhesives and glue guns and recently, resumed glue production in the United States, at its facility in Hampton.

According a business press release last month, AdTech, also known as Adhesive Technologies, Inc., moved its glue production to China in 2002. However, the founder and CEO of the company, Peter Melendy, decided about three years to look at moving production back to the states. He noted that this would allow the company to be more responsive to customers and flexible to demand.

“In turn, we will need a shorter lead time to fill requests,” he noted. “The closer you are to your customer, the better you can fill their needs.”

As costs have risen in China, in some cases, it has become more economical to move production back to the states. The change by the company will also create more jobs in the Seacoast region, according to Melendy. He hopes to produce all its standard glue formulas in the states by 2016.

Last week, Shea-Porter introduced Rewarding the Training of Employees for American Manufacturing (Rewarding the TEAM) Act of 2014, which if approved, would offer tax credits to American manufacturers who provide on-the-job training opportunities for their employees.

“I enjoyed participating in the ribbon-cutting at Ad Tech today,” she said. “This was a celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit in New Hampshire.”

The company was founded in the early 1980s. Other political luminaries, including state Sen. Nancy Stiles, R-Hampton, were also in attendance at the event.