An expanded Superior Industries manufacturing facility in Prescott Valley, Arizona, is now online, with a third equipment production line focusing on non-telescoping portable conveyors.
“This means we can reserve the existing lines of production to be more product specific,” says Jason Adams, president of Superior. “Most notably, it’s really going to take stress off TeleStacker conveyor production in Arizona and allow us to produce more of these high-demand telescoping stackers.”
Along with the new line for non-telescoping portable conveyors, Superior says the facility replicated a new idler manufacturing setup that launched in Minnesota earlier this year. The investment in machinery, robotics and automation increases conveyor idler throughput companywide, according to the company.
“This is going to have a positive effect on all of our operations and improve lead times across the board,” Adams says.
The Prescott Valley location was Superior’s first satellite manufacturing operation outside of its headquarters in Morris, Minnesota, opening in 2006.
“Our dealers in the region are growing rapidly and we need to increase production space so they can continue supporting their customers,” Adams says.
