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Teledyne EMS Announces Expansion of Lewisburg Facility
Product
Line Relocation to Bring 96 High-Tech Jobs to Lewisburg
Teledyne EMS Facility - Lewisburg Industrial Park - Lewisburg, TN |
Teledyne Electronics Manufacturing Services of Lewisburg, TN announced today that it will be the recipient of a new product line from one of its sister facilities in California that will bring new business growth and employee growth to the company.
Teledyne EMS of
Lewisburg has been a leader in electronics manufacturing for the defense and
aerospace industries for more than 30 years. When the opportunity came to
compete with other sister facilities for a new Micro-electronics product line
out of California, officials at the Lewisburg facility began working with Lewisburg
and State of Tennessee Economic Development officials to help them demonstrate
why moving the operations to Middle Tennessee was the right choice.
“The State of Tennessee
made a very good presence at the meetings and provided a lot of background on
what the state can bring to the project,” said Shane Green, VP and GM of
Teledyne EMS of Lewisburg.
Working with the state
and regional economic development partners, the City of Lewisburg put together
incentive and relocation packages to help bring not only the new expansion and
jobs, but people from the California facility.
“We wanted to show that
it made good business sense to relocate the product line in Lewisburg and that
Lewisburg and the entire Middle Tennessee region provide a great location for
some of its highly-skilled workforce to relocate as well,” said Greg Lowe,
Lewisburg Director of Economic Development.
The new product line
involves micro-electronics manufacturing that has been in operation on the West
Coast for the past 50 years. This high-tech manufacturing operation demands a
highly-skilled workforce of engineers and those with the ability to obtain and
retain security clearances from the Department of Defense. Training of existing
workers and new hires will be essential to the success of the project, as well
as recruiting of other highly-skilled employees from the west coast.
“The exciting part
about it is that it contains a whole range of new technologies that we don’t
currently perform here,” said Green. “This will allow us to provide a broader
range of products and services to the customer base. We feel like this is going
to be a strong competitive position for us and enable growth of the business
over time.”
The expansion will
create 60-70 new jobs at the Lewisburg facility around the middle of next year
and is projected to create 96 new jobs total over the next five years. The
positions will be all high-tech manufacturing positions from engineers and
support services to operators, technicians, and production.
“To our knowledge, we
will be unique in the area with hybrid manufacturing, chip and wire technology,
and chip integration technology,” said Green.
The expansion
announcement marks the second of welcomed news to the City of Lewisburg
following a groundbreaking on November 26 of a new manufacturing operation
scheduled to begin operations late next year. Imperial Foods Services will
begin construction of a new facility in the Lewisburg I-65 Commerce Park soon
with scheduled completion to be sometime around the second or third quarter of
2013. This project is expected to bring 50 new jobs to Lewisburg.
The Teledyne expansion
will require the relocation or purchase of new equipment over the next several
months and may involve the construction of an additional 25,000 sq. ft. to its
existing facility in the Lewisburg Industrial Park. The company hopes to begin
hiring for the expansion project by the summer of 2013.
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