Sherrill wood bedding company awarded $20,000 grant

Noble Wood Shavings, on Route 5, has been awarded a $20,000 Oneida County Microenterprise Grant, County Executive Anthony Picente announced Wednesday.

The company will use the grant to hire three new employees as it begins operations at the Sherrill Manufacturing Complex. Noble Wood Shavings manufactures premium quality bedding shavings for the local and regional equine industry.

The grant is administered through Mohawk Valley EDGE and utilizes state Community Development Block Grant funding. MV EDGE is also providing the company a $38,500 loan, said Steve DiMeo, MV EDGE president.

Noble advertises its bedding product as “being high quality and super-absorbent soft-wood, free of pathogens, dust, lacquers, metal or other foreign materials commonly found in other types of bedding, especially by-product waste from sawmills.”