Premier Tech is investing $33 million to build a new site for its Automated Systems business group in the Montgomery, Alabama industrial park. This facility, which began construction in the spring of 2022, will allow it to better serve its US customers with a wide range of packaging and palletizing technologies for the nutrition, industrial, organic and agriculture market sectors.
Housed in a 165,000 square foot building that is fully air-conditioned and equipped with a technical floor allowing equipment to be tested according to customers’ real production parameters, this new work environment will notably include an area for innovation, research and development as well as a training center.
The hub of customer solutions for the US market, the homeport of Montgomery will also act as a distribution center for spare parts. Operations will gradually begin next March and the move will be fully completed in early summer 2023.
“The design of our new facility will ensure an efficient manufacturing flow that will help increase production capacity and better serve our customers,” said André Noreau, President and CEO of Premier Tech Systèmes Automatisés.
“In addition to providing a world-class work environment, this site will become the central point for equipment manufacturing and customer solutions in the United States.”
Since the launch of this modernization project in 2020, 55 new jobs have been created and 78 jobs have been consolidated at the current Montgomery plant – in offices and in production – for a total workforce of 133 team members. The configuration of this new facility makes it possible to envisage, over the next few years, additional investments which could contribute to doubling this workforce by 2028.
This new construction in Montgomery is part of Premier Tech’s desire to modernize its facilities in the United States in order to improve the customer experience across the country, consolidate its local footprint by creating jobs and supporting its growth. .
Another manufacturing infrastructure project underway for its Salt Lake City facility is also part of this modernization effort with a $12 million investment.
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