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S
ay your company is bursting at the seams and you
need to expand your facilities, or you think it's time
to bring several facilities under one roof. You're
about to face some major upheaval, and you can't
afford to interrupt production. What do you do?
Either way, it's not something you want to do on the fly.
"I think our project plan is probably well over 200 to 250
pages long," says Scott Kettler, general manager of Plexus Fox
Cities, which consolidated three of its production facilities
into a new building in Neenah. The company broke ground
on the new facility June 2012, took ownership of the building
in September, and moved its first production lines in
October. The consolidation was complete in February.
"We're a contract manufacturer – we're building
Planning, communication,
collaboration key when
companies consolidate,
expand, or relocate
Photograph by Shane Van Boxtel, Image Studios
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Plexus constructed a new 473,000-square-foot facility in Neenah to
consolidate three plants into one.
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