On an average day in June, the sun shines for ten hours in Charlotte. At the groundbreaking ceremony for Stiwa’s new US factory, I absolutely refused to see it. It’s flowing. Company president Peter Stecht takes it as a sport: “I’d rather start in the rain than finish in the sun.”
The family company Stiwa, which specializes in automation and the supply of cars, will invest 36 million euros in the United States in the coming months. The plant, which is expected to create 160 jobs in the first phase of expansion, is located on the outskirts of Charlotte and is scheduled to open in September 2024. The industrial automation plants will be built in the ‘twin’ of the main plant in Attnang-Puchheim, for example for existing customers such as Greiner Bio-One and connector manufacturer Blum Vorarlberg. The two companies are located in close proximity to the new Stiwa site.
Stiwa’s area is huge, and a quarter of the area will not be developed in the first step. At the groundbreaking ceremony, US Site Manager Andreas Bruxsch and President of Stiwa Sticht talked about the next stages of expansion. Because Stiwa has great potential in the United States.
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Unlike China, where Stiwa operates a production facility and supplies existing customers from Europe, two new customers have been won in the USA. Motorola is one of them. Production in the American group is still largely by hand, for example final assembly of radios for emergency vehicles. For this particular application, Stiwa has created an automation system that’s about to deliver. “Investments by domestic companies in foreign markets are important. They provide jobs and research in Upper Austria,” says Economics Minister Markus Achleitner, who attended the groundbreaking ceremony.
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