PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (March 30, 2017)—SIGVARIS, a global provider of graduated compression, continues its mission to improve the health of legs worldwide by celebrating the grand opening of its expansion for its North American headquarters. To celebrate, SIGVARIS held a ribbon cutting ceremony on March 29 at 4 p.m. to mark the occasion.

Participants of the ceremony included local city officials, SIGVARIS employees and members of the founding family.

The state-of-the-art expansion includes 40,000 square feet of additional office, manufacturing and warehouse space. The expansion will create more than 70 new jobs over the next 10 years. In fact, in 2017, SIGVARIS has already hired 18 new employees. SIGVARIS also celebrated the grand opening of its new manufacturing facility in Holland, Michigan this week as well.

“We are proud to support the local community with both new jobs and products that are made locally that help promote health and wellness. This expansion will allow SIGVARIS to continue to make strides as a global leader in innovation for the compression market in North America,” says Scot Dubé, president and CEO for SIGVARIS North America.

SIGVARIS partnered with Peachtree City based Tiernan & Patrylo, Inc. to complete the expansion and renovation project in Peachtree City. SIGVARIS has been part of the Peachtree City community since 1997.

SIGVARIS is a family-owned Swiss business that has been around for more than 150 years. Today, more than 90 percent of the graduated compression products bought and sold in North America are manufactured in Peachtree City, Georgia and Holland, Michigan.

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