EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—ENER-G Rudox, a manufacturer of combined heat and power systems, generator sets, and provider of generator rentals and service since 1949, will invest about $8 million to acquire and renovate a former printing company warehouse in East Rutherford, NJ to expand production capacity and showcase its product line. 

The former printing facility on East Union Avenue will house the firm's new headquarters, manufacturing operations, test bays, rental equipment fleet, parts and service departments and equipment remote monitoring operations. The facility is expected to be fully operational by mid-2016.

In the past three years, ENER-G Rudox, a subsidiary of UK based ENER-G Cogen International, has increased the size of its workforce by twenty five percent.  The new building has consolidated ENER-G Rudox's office space and will provide additional space for manufacturing low carbon and renewable technologies, combined heat and power systems and standby generator sets locally in northern NJ.

“We purchased an existing facility and it's going to be heavily renovated,” Ryan Goodman, president of cogeneration at ENER-G Rudox tells GlobeSt.com exclusively. “We're going to be manufacturing emergency generation equipment and cogeneration equipment.”

The firm merged with its parent company about two and a half years ago, and outgrew its previous space in Carlstadt. “We are starting to achieve some significant growth and we are planning on being able to meet that with the new facility,” Goodman says. “All 60Hz product will be manufactured through this facility.”

Hospitals, nursing homes, and multifamily properties are the primary asset types attracted to cogeneration, the firm's primary product line, Goodman says.

“The way cogeneration works, you need a customer that has an electric demand and a thermal demand, that means using hot water, using steam in their facilities,” says Goodman. “Hospitals are the easy example because they use that all the time every day, but some of those others are also using those on a regular basis.”

ENER-G Rudox received a Grow NJ tax incentive grant from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority that helped persuade it to stay in New Jersey.

“Some of the costs of labor outside of New Jersey are more appealing, so we had a lot of dialogue with them over the evaluation we were going through,” Goodman says. “Engineering and manufacturing firms such as ours make a rich contribution to the NJ economy.  Continued government support for sustainable energy is critical to building the new low carbon economy in which we operate. We are very pleased to have an opportunity to celebrate our success with the NJ Economic Development Authority and to provide a positive example of what can be achieved when policies exist to drive growth in a sector.”