ARBURG has recently started its headquarters expansion
in the US with a groundbreaking ceremony. The new
extension increases the size of the existing company building in Rocky Hill by
2,100 m² to provide almost 80% more space.
The new production floor will create more
space for building and acceptance testing complete turnkey systems, adapting
stock machines to customer specifications and a significantly larger spare
parts warehouse.
“In recent years, our
business in the US has developed significantly better and faster than expected.
Thanks to this dynamic development, we now face the fortunate problem that our
US headquarters, which was newly built as recently as 2015, is already reaching
its capacity limits," explained Friedrich Kanz,
Managing Director of ARBURG, Inc.
The new building will be equipped with
state-of-the-art logistics, including a gantry crane with a lifting capacity of
40 tonnes. As a result, after-sales service of the ARBURG subsidiary will also
be improved.
Moreover, further rooms will be available
for customer training and technical seminars, as well as 25 additional office
workplaces for employees, mainly from the Application Technology, Turnkey and
Service departments.
The existing building already includes a
showroom for up to seven ALLROUNDER injection moulding machines and a
laboratory with two freeformers for additive manufacturing.