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East Texas Carports Expands in Kilgore

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Source: Kilgore News Herald

East Texas Carports, a family-owned manufacturer of custom metal carports, garages, barns and steel buildings, has expanded into a second facility and will open a new scheduling and permitting office at its Kilgore manufacturing plant in early 2027. The company has added a 10,000-square-foot storage building at its existing Kilgore facilities, giving the plant more room for steel, finished components and building materials as demand grows. The new 3,500-square-foot office will sit on the plant grounds at 970 Post Oak Rd. in Kilgore. It will house scheduling and permitting for every building the company installs across its six-state region: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas and Mississippi. The scheduling and permitting team will move into the new office from the company’s Longview sales office, putting the people who plan each installation next to the plant that builds it.

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