Local sign business expanding

Published 7:38 pm Monday, March 23, 2015

Greg Walker at EBSCO Sign Group makes adjustments to an LED sign at the company's facility in Clanton. The company announced plans to expand in a release March 20.

Greg Walker at EBSCO Sign Group makes adjustments to an LED sign at the company’s facility in Clanton. The company announced plans to expand in a release March 20.

A local business will be taking on a new identity, as Wayne Industries will now be known as EBSCO Sign Group, the company announced in a release on March 20.

EBSCO Sign Group, or ESG, is a custom manufacturer of LED, changeable letter and identification signs.

The company specializes in large, high-definition signs such as those found in front of churches, and more specifically, the marquee in front of Chilton County High School.

The company is one of the largest manufacturers in the United States that builds the LED into the sign cabinets, the release said, and is looking to expand.

According to the release, the company is looking to bring additional jobs to Clanton in an effort to be able to manufacture even larger LED signs.

The 73-employee company recently manufactured an 8-foot-by-20-foot LED display—the largest in the Clanton facility’s history— for the University of West Florida in Pensacola and has an order for a 6-foot-by-20-foot LED sign in house, according to the release.

Tom Sefcik, who joined the facility as a controller in November 2012 and became general manager in December 2014, is “challenging the ESG team to take these newly developed manufacturing capabilities to new heights for the good of their customers and to bring new growth into the Clanton community,” the release read.

For more information on the products produced by the Clanton facility, visit Stewartsigns.com, Ebscosigns.com and Outdoorsignsamerica.com.