Manitou Closes Waco, Texas, Operations

Manitou Group, a worldwide manufacturer of material handling, access platforms and earthmoving solutions, announced that it will cease operations in Waco, Texas, at the end of March, 2021 and consolidate most of the production in South Dakota.

Michael Roth

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Manitou North America

Dec. 24, 2020

Manitou Group, a worldwide manufacturer of material handling, access platforms and earthmoving solutions, announced that it will cease operations in Waco, Texas, at the end of March 2021 and consolidate most of the production in South Dakota.

The articulated loaders production will be consolidated in Yankton, one of its two factories in South Dakota, where 50 positions will be created. The forklift production will be moved to Beaupréau, France. The North American importing platform will be concentrated in Baltimore. The rationalization of its U.S. footprint and a streamlined operation will allow the Group to boost its performances to always maintain innovation and service to U.S. customers for the future, officials said.

Strengthening the Manitou Group position in the U.S. remains its key market strategy target.

“Our priority now is to assist our 148 employees based in Waco with job searches, including providing resume assistance and connecting employees to resources offered by the Texas Workforce Commission," said Alexandre Caharel, vice president of the compact and articulated loaders product unit.

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Michael Roth

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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.