Arburg expands US headquarters

On June 14, Arburg, Inc. officially began the expansion of its US headquarters in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. CEO Friedrich Kanz and CFO Claude-Helene McIntyre (both from Arburg Inc.), William O‘Sullivan and Larrye deBaer from the town of Rocky Hill as well as construction team members from "Tecton Architects" and "Nosal Builders" were present at the ground breaking ceremony. The expansion will provide an additional 23,000 sq.ft. of space, adding over 80% to the size of the existing building.

 

Friedrich Kanz, CEO of Arburg, Inc, said tha the main reason for the expansion in Rocky Hill, is that Arburg's US business has developed considerably faster and better than expected in recent years. The US headquarters was built in 2015 but has already met its capacity limits, according to Mr. Kanz.   

 

 

The new addition will increase the facility to provide more space for set up and acceptance testing of complete turnkey automation projects, customized specifications of stock machines and a considerably larger spare parts stock. The new building will use state of the art logistics and a 44 US ton portal crane. As a result, the Arburg subsidiary will also improve after sales support. Rooms will be added for customer training and technical seminars as well as 25 more offices for employees of the application, turnkey and service departments.

 

The existing building already offers a showroom for up to seven Allrounder injection molding machines and a lab with two Freeformers for additive manufacturing. 

 

Arbur has subsidiaries in 26 countries at 34 locations. The company, in cooperation with trade partners, is present in over 100 countries. The USA is the most important foreign market for the German company with headquarters and central manufacturing in Lossburg, Germany. Arburg Inc., the USA subsidiary of Arburg, was founded in 1990. The expansion of the Rocky Hill location is again a noteable investment into the infrastructure of the USA. Arburg also offers nationwide support with two Technology Centers in Irvine, CA (since 1993) and in Elgin, IL (since 2007). Arburg USA has 105 employees at the moment and supports 13,000 installed machines in the US, Canada and the Mexican border region.