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== Dedicated Florida facility ==

In 1992, R. P. Scherer opened a dedicated paintball-manufacturing plant in an unincorporated area of Pinellas County, Florida, several miles from its existing St Petersburg softgel facility.[3]

The 30,000-square-foot plant reportedly cost approximately US$3 million to plan and construct. Unlike the company's general softgel plants, it was devoted entirely to paintball production. The facility incorporated paintball manufacturing, offices for the recreational-products marketing division, and research and development areas where the company tested both its own products and competing paintballs.[3]

The plant was designed to operate continuously and was described as R. P. Scherer's fifteenth manufacturing facility worldwide. By 1995, the company had also opened a paintball plant in France which was reported to have capacity comparable with the Florida facility.[3][4]