Companies eyeing expansion to Piedmont

Two companies that already have facilities in Calhoun County may soon move some of their business to Piedmont.   Oxford based B.R. Williams Trucking, and Federal-Mogul, an international auto parts supplier, are both considering moving parts of their operations into warehouses on U.S. 278 in Piedmont. Piedmont Mayor Bill Baker said the two companies are eyeing vacant warehouses owned by Springs Global U.S. Inc., a company that operates a textile manufacturing plant in Brazil. But representatives with the trucking and auto parts supplier aren’t ready to say whether they will use the spaces.  It is unclear why the companies are considering the Piedmont warehouses, but city officials are encouraged by the companies’ interest. Piedmont has struggled to recruit industry since it lost the Standard-Coosa Thatcher Cotton Mill in 2001. The companies did not say how many people would be needed to fill the warehouses if they open.