ZELIENOPLE — A plastic company’s opening of a new building didn’t go well.

It burned down.

Fire officials believe faulty wiring to a furnace caused the fire shortly after 11:30 p.m. Thursday at Kenson Plastics at 620 W. Beaver St.

“They had just finished hooking things up this week,” said Chief Rob Reeb of the Zelienople Volunteer Fire Department, referring to the owners. “(Thursday) was the first day of operation.”

Luckily for the Warrendale-based company, however, the property sits across the street from the fire station.

Firefighters quickly contained the blaze and saved the company’s main building next to the 15-by-15-foot cement block building that was destroyed.

The two buildings are connected to allow for a forklift access, Reeb said.

The owners, brothers Christopher and David O’Leary, around Christmas purchased the main building from Leopold Plastics, borough officials said.

The new building was to be used as a drying room for plastic products.

Neither O’Leary brother be reached for comment this morning.

According to the company’s website, Kenson “specializes in the custom design and production of precision pressure-formed plastic components, enclosures and other specialty parts mainly for the medical and electronics industries.”

Several firefighters happened to be at the station Thursday night when they smelled smoke.

“They walked outside and saw fire coming through the roof (of the Kenson Plastics building),” Reeb said.

Fire crews got there and forced in a side door to get into the burning building. Twenty minutes later, the fire was under control.

Fire officials estimated they used 5 gallons of compressed-air foam and another 2,000 gallons of water to get the job done. No one was injured.

However, Reeb said the building was “pretty much totaled.” But the company’s main building sustained only minor smoke and water damage.

“The fire appears to be accidental and electrical in nature,” Reeb said.