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Ingersoll Rand to add 20 jobs at Mocksville plant
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Published: June 10, 2009
Ingersoll Rand said today that it will expand its Mocksville work force by 20 jobs by Aug. 31 as part of a consolidation move affecting a plant in Colorado.
The company also said it would spend $18.5 million on capital investments at the plant, according to a news release from the Davie County Economic Development Commission.
The company is consolidating part of its integrated compressor-manufacturing operations into the Mocksville plant, including moving equipment from the Pueblo, Colo., plant.
The majority of the new jobs will be highly skilled machine-tool operators, which are associated with Helical Rotor manufacturing, according to the commission. Employees at the Pueblo plant will be offered jobs at the Mocksville plant.
The move "solidifies Ingersoll Rand's commitment to reinvesting resources and jobs back into Mocksville,' said Terry Bralley, the president of the commission.
However, the addition of jobs represents a work-force reversal for Ingersoll Rand in Mocksville.
The company conducted major job cuts in November, February and March, affecting a combined 225 jobs.
About 110 of those job cuts were related to the outsourcing of its sheet-metal business, while the other jobs were affected by declining sales and reductions in production volume.
The company said in November that it was adding about 118 jobs in Mocksville by June 30 as part of consolidating its production operations in the town of Davidson.
But in March, the company said it expects to add fewer jobs to the Mocksville plant as part of the consolidation, according to Susan Jaramillo, the director of communications for the industrial-technology sector for the company. Jaramillo could not be reached for immediate comment today.
The company makes air compressors, tools, fluid-handling machines and other products, and employs 64,000 people around the world.
The plant has operated in Mocksville since 1965. It had grown from 75 employees in a single building to more than 600 employees in five buildings covering more than 400,000 square feet.
When the March job cut was completed, Jaramillo said that the company would have 165 employees at the Mocksville plant. That figure does not count the jobs being transferred from the operation in Davidson.
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