Manufacturer plans $3.6M Mebane expansion

Safety products manufacturer Kidde is preparing to expand with a nearly 121,000-square-foot addition to its distribution facility in the N.C. Industrial Center in Mebane.

City of Mebane officials confirmed the company’s plans to expand with an addition to its more than 244,000-square-foot distribution facility at the center — one of the Triad-Triangle area’s largest industrial parks — at the intersection of Route 119 and South Third Street Extension. Construction costs for the shell building…