Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC, established in 1937, is a third-generation manufacturer or dental products Illinois Corporation. They currently employ 109 on three shifts in Ottawa, Illinois. The Company built their current facility on 3.5 acres in 1979 that originally was 11,000 square feet. They soon added an additional 11,000 square feet in 1995. They have experienced rapid sales and anticipate it continuing over the next five years. Ottawa Dental Laboratory, LLC is planning to construct a new facility in Ottawa, IL for the manufacture of denture products.
The Company has outgrown their existing facility and need more space to add more employees. The Company has experienced rapid growth and needs to add and additional 11,000 square feet of office, production, training, accounting, customer service, production, shipping and receiving. Future growth is expected in their digital work-flow using computer aided design and manufacturing. The method of product processing by analog impressions has been flowing into digital design work-flow and producing high volumes. The total project is $4,500,000 and will create 50 new jobs. On June 22, 2018, bonds were issued in the amount of $4,300,000 to help create 50 full-time jobs.
The Project closed in 2018.