Bobcat Company Finishes $70M Manufacturing Facility Expansion in Statesville

Bobcat Company has completed the $70-million expansion of its manufacturing facility in Statesville, NC.  The investment makes the location the company’s largest manufacturing facility in North America and will add hundreds more jobs in Iredell County over the next five years.

The 600,000-square-foot expansion increases the footprint to more than 1 million square feet on a more than 150-acre campus at 1293 Glenway Drive.  There is additional space for manufacturing and warehousing; research and development; an automated paint line; parts control and storage; shipping and receiving docks; open air space for product testing and quality control; additional parking; shipping and delivery entrance; and finished goods inventory storage.

The manufacturing space includes new technology to improve production efficiencies and streamline operations across Bobcat’s North American locations. New factory technology and systems are consistent across the company’s North American facilities for improving process and design collaboration as well as for simplifying transfer of information.