Voith Turbo North America Breaks Ground on $5 million Expansion to Workshop in Pennsylvania
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/ueditor/php/upload/image/20230829/1693321260907540.png" title="1693321260907540.png" alt="3.png"/></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Voith Turbo North America has broken ground on a $5 million expansion of its workshop in York, Pa. The expansion will increase the Group Division¡¯s American manufacturing capabilities.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">¡°This expansion is going to allow us to proactively meet our customers¡¯ growing needs now and into the future,¡± said Ralf Dreckmann, President, Voith Turbo North America.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Voith Turbo will add an additional 10,000 square feet of space to its existing 69,700 square-foot facility already located in York, Pa. In addition, 17,000 feet of existing warehouse space will be converted into workshop space for increased manufacturing and service work.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Voith Turbo is seeing increasing manufacturing needs in many of their customer markets, but the main growth is related to the rail industry. Through this expansion, Voith Turbo¡¯s rail operations at the York, Pa. workshop will transition from a mostly service-based disassembly and reassembly business to new business manufacturing. The location will be able to support higher volume rail products like gearboxes and couplers.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Several new, full-time positions will become available as a result of the expansion including shop technicians; Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machinists; project managers; engineers; field service technicians; and support and quality control. More job openings are anticipated in the future.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The expansion will also increase Voith Turbo¡¯s capacity to meet Buy America compliance requirements.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">¡°Through our rail business, which is largely for municipal transportation networks, we have many projects that require regional value content as well as Buy America compliance,¡± said Garrett Goll, director of sales, Voith Turbo Rail Business North America. ¡°This expansion will boost our compliance capabilities for those contracts and in turn, will bring even more value for our customers.¡±</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Construction on the workshop is expected to be complete by the Spring of 2024.</span></p><p><br/></p>
29 Aug,2023
