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Photo of the Day: A. Schulman Breaks Ground at New Location

A. Schulman will build a new world headquarters on Ridgewood Road.

Last week, on Ridgewood Road, allowing to build a new world headquarters and the be anchor of Fairlawn's new Corporate Park.

The building will sit on 4.6 acres of land that the company bought for $560,000. It will be a one-story, 34,000 square foot building that will house the U.S. headquarters, a common area and a corporate area for the Akron Product Technology Center.

Mayor William Roth, A. Schulman President and CEO Joe Gingo and Mike Ritenour, president of Landridge Development LLC broke ground last week.

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The target opening date is spring 2013 and the new building will make room for 17 new jobs.

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