Ditch Witch Breaks Floor on 100,000-sq.-ft. Expansion in Oklahoma
Ditch Witch currently renowned breaking floor on a fresh paint and product ending facility in Perry, Oklahoma.
The deliberate 170,000-square-foot expansion to its most up-to-date Perry campus will make 100 jobs within the condominium and represents one of many largest investments in Ditch Witch’s historical past. Constructing on the expansion is scheduled to be performed in early 2027.
The contract for the expansion went to total contractor Conco Constructing out of Wichita, Kansas.
The Affiliation of Instruments Manufacturer’s Manufacturing Categorical tour, which visits manufacturers one day of the U.S., used to be additionally most up-to-date for the groundbreaking, which marked Ditch Witch’s 75th year in alternate.
Ditch Witch’s Perry facility produces trenchers, skid steers, augurs and other utility instruments and employs 1,700 workers, along with 150 rotund-time welders.
Closing year, Ditch Witch offered the AT120, billed as the “world’s largest” all-terrain horizontal directional drill. In its second-quarter 2024 earnings presentation, Toro – which obtained Ditch Witch’s father or mother company Charles Machine Works in 2019 – talked about fresh merchandise treasure the AT120 possess been riding winning enhance on the corporate. Ditch Witch additionally currently debuted its W8 vacuum excavator for tight jobsites.
Other most up-to-date manufacturer expansions consist of Komatsu investing in its Arizona campus and Topcon consolidating operational structures at its Geisenheim, Germany, campus.
