Hydraulic component manufacturer Bosch Rexroth recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of its Fountain Inn, S.C. hydraulics production facility. After undergoing an expansion in 2013, the location is home to the company’s largest hydraulics manufacturing facility in the Americas.
Opened in 1989, the facility was originally made up of a single 250,000-sq.-ft. building and specialized in manufacturing hydraulic pumps.
Now, the Fountain Inn facility is more than double its original size. Rexroth last year converted an existing industrial warehouse into a state-of-the-art manufacturing and assembly facility, bringing the whole campus to a total of 510,000 sq. ft. The plant occupies more than 100 acres and employs more than 700 workers.
The expansion was part of Bosch Rexroth’s ongoing “local for local” strategy. Rexroth believes in focusing on localized business growth opportunities like Fountain Inn so it can more directly foster relationships with local and regional customers and supply fast domestic shipping to customers.
The expanded Fountain Inn space enabled Bosch Rexroth to similarly broaden the site’s capabilities. With the expanded campus, the company not only manufactures but also assembles its hydraulic pumps and motors, and large hydraulic vane motors - used in mobile and industrial hydraulic systems. The Fountain Inn campus has full-scale production and assembly capabilities for the following Rexroth products:
Over the past 25 years the company has added product engineering and research and development resources, as well as a hands-on apprentice shop for the company’s trainees. It also supports the mobile aftermarket, offering remanufacturing, spare parts and repairs.
“Bosch Rexroth has always emphasized quality, domestically manufactured products and customer satisfaction,” said Mike McCormick, vice president and technical plant manager at Bosch Rexroth. “Our Fountain Inn plant has exemplified these priorities for the past 25 years. We’re pleased that our facility also provides value-added services including R&D, training and faster delivery.”
The additional resources at Fountain Inn have grown Rexroth’s shipping capabilities in North America. The Drive & Control Company has enhanced its GoTo Focused Delivery Program, expanding its capacity to quickly deliver high-demand products like the A10VO hydraulic pump to customers in the region.
The Fountain Inn campus is one of four Rexroth manufacturing facilities in the United States. With additional locations in Illinois, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Rexroth continues to serve its broad customer base throughout the region.
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