Atlas Copco Breaks Ground on New LEED-Certified Facility in Rock Hill

Atlas Copco is breaking ground on a new 180,000-square-foot facility in Rock Hill, S.C., to meet growing customer demand for equipment and support.

Michael Roth

Feb. 1, 2016

The new Rock Hill SC will focus on customer support and the manufacture of air compressors and generators — The new Rock Hill, S.C., will focus on customer support and the manufacture of air compressors and generators.

Atlas Copco is breaking ground on a new 180,000-square-foot facility in Rock Hill, S.C., to meet growing customer demand for equipment and support. The $20 million project will be the new production and assembly facility for Atlas Copco’s North American Construction Technique division.

The Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEEDS)-certified facility will product portable generators and compressors as well as other construction equipment. Atlas Copco expects to open the facility in April 2017.

The building will be designed for lean manufacturing to enable efficient, flexible and environmentally sustainable processes.

“From products to general support, we’re committed to being close to the customer,” said Erik Sparby, general manager, Atlas Copco Construction Equipment. “This new facility will be one of our flagship sites when it comes to North American manufacturing excellence, including sustainable productivity, a goal we put forward for ourselves and our customers.”

The new building, located in one of Rock Hill’s newest mixed-use developments, will replace the company’s original Rock Hill facility.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.