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.