TONAWANDA, N.Y. — You can look all across the United States and you won't find a facility like Unifrax's new plant in Tonawanda.

"This is actually the first of this kind of facility anywhere outside of Japan," said Unifrax CEO, John Dandolph. 

The $34 million plant will make the specialty fibers and inorganic materials used in things like cars.

Unifrax ships all over the world, and the company looked at locations overseas for the facility.

Thanks to incentives like low cost energy and grants from National Grid and sales tax exemptions from Erie County, Unifrax decided to build local.

"What surprises me the most is you get the county, Erie County Industrial Development Agency, National Grid and us at the table working as a team, figuring out what's best for the company, the community and still being able to invest," said Dandolph. 

"This is the market we're in and if we're not willing to offer incentives to a company that's growing we'll lose them and we don't want to lose locally based companies, especially a world leader," said Erie County executive, Mark Poloncarz. 

Close to 200 jobs were kept in Western New York, and county leaders say it isn't a win just because of job retention, but because of job potential.

"By allowing them to grow here it not only guarantees we have additional jobs but it strengthens the existing jobs here and if they do decide to do additional expansion, the odds are it'll be here rather than elsewhere," said Poloncarz.