Trumpf Breaks Ground on Production Factory Expansion

Trumpf Inc. has begun work on expanding its local manufacturing and sheet metal assembly of fabricating machine tools in Farmington, Connecticut. The North American subsidiary of the Trumpf Group will add 55,800 square feet to its production building for the manufacture of laser cutting, bending and welding machinery. The project is part of ongoing recovery efforts related to damage sustained after a plane crashed into the production building in September of 2021. The expansion will include a smart factory that demonstrates advanced automated and connected precision sheet metal production.

“This project is an important step toward the next generation of manufacturing for Trumpf and also for our customers across the United States,” says Trumpf Inc. President and CEO Lutz Labisch. “Smart factories and automated, connected manufacturing are an important part of keeping American manufacturing companies strong and competitive into the future.”

Construction on the project has begun and is expected to be completed by May of 2024. The Connecticut smart factory project will become Trumpf’s fourth smart factory worldwide and second in the U.S. Trumpf Inc. opened its first U.S. smart factory just outside Chicago in 2017. In the past five years, more than 8,000 manufacturers have visited the working model of connected manufacturing and Trumpf has helped create approximately thirty other smart factory projects for large OEMs and smaller manufacturers across the U.S. In 2022, more than 2,000 people visited Trumpf in Connecticut for technology demonstrations or training, and more are expected to visit once the new smart factory is complete.

“We have seen an increasing demand for our flexible enabling technology,” says Burke Doar, Trumpf Inc. executive vice president for sales and marketing. “Our customers tell us that they are investing in state-of-the-art, high-tech equipment to become more efficient and productive, overcome supply chain-related production issues, and give available labor the freedom to focus on more creative problem-solving work. Connected manufacturing is the key to doing all of that more competitively.”

The Trumpf Group, which celebrates its hundredth anniversary this year, opened the North American subsidiary in 1969 and began manufacturing in Connecticut in 1974. Trumpf Inc. has additional offices in California, Illinois and Michigan.