C.C. Creations (asi/154758), which bills itself as the largest custom screen printing and embroidery company in Texas, broke ground on a $33 million production facility in Bryan, TX, this week.

Owner and CEO Kenny Lawson told WTAW that the new building will likely take the 40-year-old C.C. Creations from being the eighth-largest screen printer in the country to the third-largest.

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“Nobody dreamed of it becoming this size, but I think we just took advantage of some opportunities that were presented to us,” Lawson told KTX earlier this year. “Our company, our employees, they wanted to grow, they wanted to be relevant in our industry.”

The 210,000-square-foot facility will house state-of-the-art decorating equipment, allowing for a higher production volume. The decorator currently prints in a 65,000-square-foot facility that allows for a daily print volume of 25,000 shirts, with 7.7 million tees printed annually, according to C.C. Creations. The new building will allow the company to produce 50,000 shirts a day – and 15 million a year.

C.C. Creations expects to open its new facility, dubbed the Legacy Campus, by the end of 2023. The company’s headquarters in College Station, TX, and another facility in Bryan will remain open, according to Lawson.

The new production facility will bring hundreds of jobs to Texas’ Brazos Valley, and C.C. Creations plans to heavily recruit employees throughout 2023 to support operational growth. 

C.C. Creations opened in 1982 as a small decorating shop with only two manual screen-printing presses, but it quickly grew. In 2005, the company added divisions devoted to trophies, awards, signs and banners. In 2006, it acquired a 65,000-square-foot production facility to meet increased demand.