Shiseido America To Expand East Windsor Facility

Shiseido America in East Windsor will be undergoing a 72,988 square foot two-phase expansion of their facility on Princeton-Hightstown Road. The building is currently 211,000 square feet and has 150 full-time employees and about 150 temporary employees. The expansion will bring an additional ten full-time employees to the building.

The first phase of the expansion (Phase I) is the construction of a 54,580 square foot office addition which will be tacked onto the existing warehouse building. Phase I will also include the creation of additional parking spaces, a storm water management bass, a widened driveway and an expanded loading area.

Phase II is the construction of an 18,408 square foot addition which will be located behind the existing office building. Both Phases of construction are expected to be completed by mid-summer 2013.

This expansion will allow Shiseido to gradually shift some distribution from their Oakland facility to the East Windsor facility. The manufacturing and warehouse additions will enlarge the space capacity for handing the company’s innovative cosmetics brands which include Shiseido, Nars, and Bare Escentuals.

The additions will also increase the exportation of products manufactured at the East Windsor facility to Europe and Asia. The expansion also lets the loading docks to be moved inside in order to create a more systematic floor loading system.

“Shiseido is one of our preeminent companies and community-minded corporate neighbors, and we are excited that East Windsor is such a great location to grow their company,” East Windsor Mayor Janice Mironov said. “Shiseido’s continued success and decision to expand illustrates East Windsor’s business attractiveness, and will add tax dollars and new jobs for our community. With a long company history of promoting and protecting our green environment, the corporate leadership and staff of Shiseido America has set an admirable model for businesses in our community and around the world.” 

Shiseido America is a subsidiary of the Japanese-based corporation Shiseido Company LTD, which established their operations in East Windsor in 1998 and serves as a manufacturing center for the company.

Shiseido Company LTD, is the fourth largest cosmetics company in the world. They develop upscale cosmetics, personal care items, toiletries, sun care products, fragrances, professional salon hair care products, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. 

Shiseido in East Windsor received a New Jersey Environmental Excellence Award in 2010 for reducing reliance on traditional sources of electricity by 80 percent through the installation of a roof-top solar array, a modest sized ground-based array, and various energy-saving initiatives. 

“Shiseido is proud to have worked closely with Mayor Mironov and the Township for over a decade and is very appreciative of the partnership we have established with East Windsor’s local officials,” Shiseido America President and Chief Operating Officer Edward Houlihan said. “We are hopeful that we will continue to deepen our productive relationship with the community and continue to expand our presence and business activities in East Windsor for years to come.”

When it was announced the prison was reopening in the past, Five CAP, Inc. built affordable single-family and multi-family housing in Baldwin and Lake County to support individuals living and working in the county. At the time, they were selling as fast as they were being built, said Mary Trucks, Five CAP executive director. However, as soon as the prison closed, the houses were put up for sale and the owners moved.

All of the units built during that time are currently occupied, Trucks said, except for two that were in the process of being built when the prison closed. If the prison does reopen, Five CAP would be willing to build housing units again, she said.

"If (the prison) opens, I think it creates the market that allows for us to do many things in the community, including addressing the shortage of affordable housing," Trucks said. "We see an opportunity to do many things from an economic standpoint that would benefit the community, and from a social standpoint to benefit the community."

Bumstead admits the prison's past practices have made Lake County residents cautious, but he remains optimistic that the prison could stay open this time.

"Hopefully in the next six or eight years (the prison) proves itself that it is a huge savings to the state, which there would be because that's part of the deal that it has to be a minimum of 10 percent savings," Bumstead said. "If that facility is full, it is like $25 million (in savings). If we can get it maxed out, that is a huge savings to the state and jobs to our area."

Not everyone in Lake County will be qualified to work as a corrections officer, but residents could receive the necessary training to become employed at the prison, Bumstead said. Also, not all of the jobs will be in corrections, he added. Employees also will be needed in areas like food service.

The T Sheets paper templates are updated to reflect diagnostic and treatment protocols specific to H3N2, the primary influenza A virus circulating this season. It supports consistent charting and critical patient health information capture while ensuring hospitals meet regulatory and reimbursement needs.

"With the continued reports of rising flu levels this year, we felt it was critical to offer our assistance," said Sunny Sanyal, T-System chief executive officer. "In handling a public health crisis such as this latest seasonal epidemic, providers involuntarily find themselves lacking a sufficient strategy to keep up with the increased patient volumes. T Sheets offers an easy and structured way to help ED clinicians treat and document the surge of patients both onsite and offsite more efficiently."

According to news reports, the resulting overflows of patients complaining of flu-like symptoms are flooding EDs across the country. Many are operating at capacity and are setting up secondary EDs in parking lots and hospital hallways, conference rooms and clinics to meet demand and enacting emergency procedures.