JLG Announces Reopening of Facility in Orrville, Ohio

February 15, 2006 — JLG Industries, Inc., McConnellsburg, Pa., announced it plans to reopen the company's 340,000-square-foot facility in Orrville, Ohio, which was closed in 2003. Telehandler product engineering and certain component manufacturing operations at the New Philadelphia, Ohio, facility will be relocated to the Orrville facility. Additionally, North American service parts distribution currently located in McConnellsburg will be moved to Orrville.

According to JLG, relocating the service parts distribution operations will create additional manufacturing space in the McConnellsburg facility, which improves capacity for manufacturing both JLG products and telehandlers for Caterpillar, Inc. Bill Lasky, chairman, president, and chief executive officer, said the Orrville facility provides added capacity with room to expand for future manufacturing, as well as access to good transportation and an experienced workforce.

“Along with reopening our Sunnyside facility in Bedford, Pa., the sale of the facility in New Philadelphia, and the capacity investments we are making, by the end of this fiscal year, we will have the capacity to support more than 50% higher production with the same basic manufacturing footprint we had at the end of the previous year,” he added.

 

Reopening the Orrville facility will create approximately 150 new jobs and will retain 130 other jobs.