Nutrition company to open Lancaster facilities

Economic development officials said in a news release Tuesday that Nutramax Laboratories Inc. and Nutramax Manufacturing Inc. will invest more than $12 million in facilities in Lancaster County just south of Charlotte, N.C.

Nutramax president Todd Henderson says the Edgewood, Md.-based company founded by his father in 1992 has looked for three years for an expansion location.

The company makes a line of nutritional supplements for people, cats, dogs and horses as well as a line of products for to improve the growth of turfgrass.