In April of 2008, the state of Indiana held a special ceremony in honor of Marion Manufacturing (West Terre Haute, IN) and its bold investment of more than $2 million to build and equip a 24,000-square-foot addition to its existing 20,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution center. The company moved into its expanded facility in November of 2008. Then the bottom fell out.
Tammy Marion, President of Marion Manufacturing, said, “The expansion was planned during an uptime in the economy. We used the downturn as an opportunity to move forward and expand our customer base and develop our manufacturing processes to handle more high-end components and really push the aerospace industry more than we had previously.”