Bobcat Wraps $70M NC Industrial Expansion

Doosan Bobcat Statesville facility. Image courtesy of Doosan Bobcat

Bobcat Co. has completed the expansion of its Statesville, N.C. manufacturing facility. After investing $70 million into the asset, the site is now the company’s largest North American manufacturing property.

The expanded facility is located at 1293 Glenway Drive within the 150-acre Doosan campus, some 42 miles north of Charlotte, N.C. Around 600,000 square feet of space was added, bringing the property’s total square footage to more than 1 million square feet.

Shultz + Associates Architects designed the expansion, while Omega Construction was the construction manager. Beginning in July 2021, construction took 14 months to complete.

The expansion increases Bobcat’s production capabilities and efficiency. New features include added space for research, development, manufacturing and warehousing. The facility now has an automated paint line, a shipping and delivery entrance, storage for finished inventory, docks for receiving and shipping, parts control/storage and a space for quality control and product testing. Additional parking was also added.

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To simplify the transfer of information across Bobcat’s national facilities, the new technology and system implementations are consistent across all North American manufacturing sites.

The Statesville location will produce the Bobcat mini track loader (MTL) as well as the compact tractor line. The MTL production line is currently in Bismarck, N.D., but will move to Statesville by the end of this year. The new facility will produce 35 units per shift, or a new Bobcat MT100 every 10.8 minutes. The compact tractor, which has been assembled in the Statesville facility since 2019, will continue its production on the site.

Generators, air compressors and light towers are also currently produced in the Statesville manufacturing facility.

Over the next five years, it is estimated that around 250 more jobs will be created in the Iredell County due to the facility’s expansion. Around one-third of these positions have been filled, bringing the current Statesville team to almost 600 employees.