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.”

WEST TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (April 23, 2008) - Marion Manufacturing, a woman-owned family business that provides precision machining services to the heavy equipment, aerospace and military markets, announced today it will expand its operations here and more than double its workforce by 2011.

The business will invest 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 that will house a new automated robotic work cell and new computer-controlled lathes and mills.