16.06.2008

Terex Demag expands plant

Terex Demag has broken ground on a new logistics centre in Zweibrücken-Wallerscheid, next door to its All-Terrain crane plant and Zweibrücken airport.

Work is expected to take six to seven months, with operations due to get underway at the new facility in November/December 2008.
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(L-R) Rick Nichols –president of Terex Cranes, Heinz Heller –Mayor of Zweibrücken, Armin Rein -managing director ISL, Michael Wöhler -director HR, Jürgen Dincher -managing director, ISL, Paul Lemoine -director operations at Terex Demag and Terex president

Alexander Knecht, Terex Demag managing director said: “This is an important measure that will help us to keep satisfying our customers’ needs and to remain competitive on the international market. We are glad that the city of Zweibrücken considered our project to be extremely important and gave us its full support from the very beginning. Now we can create the space we urgently need for new production halls at our premises in Wallerscheid, the All Terrain cranes plant and Dinglerstraße, the crawler crane plant.”

Tom Riordan, Terex chief operating officer added: “With the new logistics centre, we are taking a big step towards the future with our crane production operations in Zweibrücken. Our objective is to pick up the pace of All-Terrain and crawler crane production as quickly as possible, in order to respond to the strong global demand for our products."