A groundbreaking is scheduled for March, with an estimated December 2011 completion date. The facility will be built by industrial developer Duke Realty, which said D-A expects to relocate 50 employees to the new headquarters. The price of the project was not disclosed.

D-A Lubricants was founded in 1919. The City of Indianapolis has grown and expanded around us, so we have no room to expand, D-A Lubricants communications manager Gloria Comstock told Lube Report. Were experiencing a wonderful growth right now, and were land-boxed. So thats one of the primary reasons to relocate.

Mike Protogere, D-A Lubricants chairman and CEO, said Lebanon Business Park offered the company, an excellent growth opportunity: to build to our specifications and relocate to an area more conductive to our primary business of blending and distributing D-A and private branded lubricant products. The established infrastructure of the business park includes rail lines and immediate access to I-65 – allowing D-A to receive and send rail shipments as well as continue [over the road] distribution.

The new facility will allow us to consolidate our manufacturing and distribution facilities into one as well as provide additional manufacturing capabilities for product line expansion, said Gisela Miller, D-A Lubricants president and chief financial officer.

Primarily known as a lubricant supplier to the heavy construction equipment industry, D-A Lubricant manufactures a variety of products, including heavy-duty engine and passenger car motor oils, extreme-pressure automotive gear lubricants and transmission fluids, and industrial gear oils and hydraulic fluids. It has distribution facilities in six states, and also ships lubricants globally.