Kimber building new production plant in Alabama

[osteodoc08]

Kimber announced it plans on building a new plant in Alabama for 2019. One could only imagine why they wouldn't stay in Yonkers. Here is the article:


For Immediate Release Kimber Announces Manufacturing Expansion in Alabama YONKERS, N.Y., January 9, 2018 — Kimber Mfg., Inc., a leading American firearms manufacturer, today announced that it has finalized plans to expand manufacturing operations to Alabama. Kimber will begin operations in early 2019, with a new design engineering and manufacturing facility in the City of Troy.

Once a small manufacturing company based in Yonkers, NY, Kimber has grown at a rapid pace over the past 21 years with locations in the New York metro area and Montana. The new Troy facility will double Kimber’s manufacturing capacity.

“Due to an unprecedented year-over-year growth in demand, every time the company has embarked upon a planned expansion, the newly created capacity is exhausted before the expansion is complete,” said James Cox, Kimber’s chief financial officer. “As we continue to move into uncharted waters in regards to Kimber product demand, it was important to us to build a facility that will allow us to secure a significant new plateau of capacity.”

“We are pleased with the impressive track record that Alabama has with attracting and retaining world-class manufacturing companies,” said Leslie Edelman, Kimber’s president and chief executive officer. “Growing our company intelligently depends significantly on being in the right manufacturing environment, and in Troy, we have a community dedicated to our long-term success. Working with the Alabama Department of Commerce as well as Mayor Jason Reeves and his team has been a pleasurable and rewarding experience.”

“We will be building a large, automated, state-of-the-art design engineering and manufacturing facility in Troy to support Kimber’s growth plan and strategy,” said Greg Grogan, Kimber’s chief operating officer. “Troy offers us expansion with a passionate workforce, affordable utility costs, a pro-business environment, experienced local training support, and long-term incentives from the State of Alabama and the City of Troy alike. This expansion, in conjunction with our existing manufacturing facilities, talented and experienced employees, and best-in-class products provides for exciting times here at Kimber.”

“This is a dream come true for the City of Troy and for me personally; a firearms manufacturing company with such a stellar brand as Kimber, creating jobs and capital investment for the community,” said Jason Reeves, Mayor of the City of Troy. “Troy has a strong manufacturing base and Kimber will certainly, positively add to that.”

[Hogtamer]

Roll Tide and good on Kimber!

[Jr.]

Roll Tide and good on Kimber!

Didn't Alabama beat Georgia lol, but seriously I'm glad to hear about this, the country needs jobs and this will provide them for the good folks in Alabama.

[NyFirefighter357]

I work in Yonkers and drive by Kimber on a regular basis. The City of Yonkers, the County of Westchester in which it lays and the State of NY are all not gun friendly with high taxes to boot. Just another industry leaving NY.

[Tom W.]

Too bad I'm a bit old, or I'd be headed there. It's not too far from here.....

[blindeye]

Glad to see success in the industry. Never could figure out why they'd locate in NY in the 1st place. Must've been a reason.

[fatnhappy]

Remington isn't far behind. NY state is unfortunately governed by the cesspools on the Hudson.

[6bg6ga]

Don't they need literate people?[smilie=s:

[bullet maker 57]

Good luck Kimber. I have a Kimber, Very well built firearm. I hope this works out well fro them.

[mold maker]

Yep, that's why they're going to Alabama to avoid the cesspool political system in NY. Ever hear the term, "Save your Confederate money, the South's gonna rise again?"
We Southerners welcome the Yankey jobs and money. It would have been nice for them to have stopped off in NC, but it's a major step in the right direction.

[Petrol & Powder]

The liberal, high tax, union controlled northern states are losing their industrial base at a phenomenal rate. And if we're talking about the firearms industry, there's even more incentive to relocate to the south.

They did it to themselves and have NO one else to blame.

High Taxes, expensive labor, excessive regulation, expensive energy and poor infrastructure have consequences.

[white eagle]

Glad to see success in the industry. Never could figure out why they'd locate in NY in the 1st place. Must've been a reason.

must have been the taxes
I agree almost as bad a Kommifornia
Seems the make America Great Again is starting
better late than never

[waksupi]

They are spread out quite a bit. There is a facility about five miles from me that does handguns, and a rifle facility about 20 miles west.

[Tom W.]

Don't they need literate people?[smilie=s:

Probably can use a few that aren't too sharp. Go ahead and apply.....:bigsmyl2:

[6bg6ga]

Probably can use a few that aren't too sharp. Go ahead and apply.....:bigsmyl2:

I would but I enjoy work with a challenge. Besides you were already in line and I would hate to take your job from you

[osteodoc08]

The ribbing has been fun but let's not take it any further and keep the thread on track please.

[William Yanda]

Gov. Andy is too busy taxing us to give his contributors huge money to "grow business". Sorry, but I can't wish anyone ill for moving to a gun business friendly area.

[Hickory]

For some reason, I doubt Kimber will have as much trouble setting up production as Remington did setting up Marlin.

Just a guess.

[Shawlerbrook]

Gov. Andy is busy giving free college and family leave, while the state is $4 billion in a hole. NY has lost 1 million people since the manchild Cuomo became governor. He is trying to buy a spot on the Democratic ticket in 2020 by squeezing hardworking NYers and giving their money to every fringe group he can buy.

[Hickory]

He is trying to buy a spot on the Democratic ticket in 2020 by squeezing hardworking NYers and giving their money to every fringe group he can buy.

Typical modus operandi of the left.
Spend, spend, spend. After all, it's not your money, isn't that what the democrats said under Obama?

[higgins]

Not related to firearms, but somewhat related, Toyota and Mazda today announced they're building a plant in Huntsville.

[osteodoc08]

Not related to firearms, but somewhat related, Toyota and Mazda today announced they're building a plant in Huntsville.

The state of Alabama has been making the right moves inviting big business to Alabama and enticing them with attractive financial packages. There has been several new plants built ina and around the South over the past several years.

[Butchman205]

Great to see another firearms maker moving here to Bama.


-Butchman

[6bg6ga]

The state of Alabama has been making the right moves inviting big business to Alabama and enticing them with attractive financial packages. There has been several new plants built ina and around the South over the past several years.

Alabama is no different than any other state trying to entice businesses by offering tax incentives. The plus for Alabama and other southern states is the average wage is lower than it is in states like Illinois and Iowa for example. Unfortunately in some of the southern states there is a larger percentage of people that don't have a high school education or a tech school degree let alone college.

[Rick N Bama]

It would have been nice for them to have stopped off in NC, but it's a major step in the right direction.

We're also getting a Toyota-Mazda plant near Huntsville that will provide some 4000 jobs plus the spinoffs. Toyota already has an engine plant in Huntsville.

Remington has been producing firearms in Huntsville for around two years.

BTW, North Carolina offered Toyota/Mazda almost twice the $$$ in tax incentives as Alabama did and we still got the plant.

[starmac]

It is a win win for Kimber. Kimber and Alabama alike. Kimber will no doubt be taxed less and way less for a number of years. They will also have a workforce that costs less in several ways, wages just being one of them. What folks sometimes have a hard time understanding is , just because a person in Alabama makes less per hour than one in NY, does not mean he can not afford the same or even a better quality of life than someone making considerably more in other states.

As far as Alabama not having as high a percentage of college grads, I do not see that as a problem at all, excepting it may be hard to convince them rednecks they need to pay union dues. lol

[Hogtamer]

If they come out with an SEC model they'll double their sales. Us illiterate rednecks and deplorables down henh wat love our colige teams do got a little buying power.

[Tom W.]

People can go right out of the door of Troy University and put in their resume. Or Auburn, or Alabama, or any number of good colleges and universities.

[Thin Man]

We would have welcomed them to Tennessee with all the other manufacturers who have arrived lately (and are still coming).

[lightman]

There would have been welcome in Arkansas too! Good for Alabama, and good for the South.

[Rick N Bama]

People can go right out of the door of Troy University and put in their resume. Or Auburn, or Alabama, or any number of good colleges and universities.

Plus numerous Community Colleges teaching skills used by Kimber, Remington, Toyota, Kia, etc. Cullman County is home to one of the largest with some 6000 students attending earning associates degrees in various technical skills from accounting to welding. There are 4 such schools within commuting distance of my home plus three 4-year colleges.

[Big Boomer]

Yankees can say what they like about southerners but I have always considered myself a southerner even though I was born and raised in east/central Kentucky and never lived below the Mason/Dixon line, though I only live about 50 miles from where some think that line was drawn. My son works as a plant superintendent for Toyoto Enterprises in Alabama. There are clods everywhere including the south ... but there are plenty in the north as well, especially in the northeast and upper midwest. Be careful about casting aspersions. We need to remember that we are one nation, under God, indivisible ... and we are going to need every vote we can get in the next couple of elections. Big Boomer