Torklift International is opening a new production facility located in eastern Washington to further expand existing lines, new lines, and to support a growing OEM segment.
“When the announcement was made at Torklift, the team roared with excitement,” said Torklift President Jack Kay. “We’ve been looking for a new location to expand into for a couple years and found the perfect location two and a half hours east of our existing facility.”
Both facilities will continue to operate in tandem as part of Torklift’s pre-existing business model.
“All of our new product development happens at our Retail Product Development Center in Kent, Wash., because we have an opportunity to meet with customers one-on-one to achieve their custom fabrication and product needs,” Kay said. “From there if our engineering and marketing teams determine there is a viable market for the new product idea, it comes to our Sumner, Wash., production facility to be mass manufactured.”
Over the past several years, Torklift has been challenged to make room in its existing facility to continue to manufacture new product lines, as well as build-out existing product lines.
“Mature product lines as well as OEM product lines will be the first product lines to be considered during this expansion to the eastern Washington facility,” said Kay. “The expansion of these mature lines opens up production space in our Sumner facility for new product development and mass manufacturing refinement.”
Torklift has a goal of releasing five to ten new products per year and expects to be in operation in its new facility during fourth quarter of 2019.