New Flyer to build $28M parts plant in Kentucky
Winnipeg’s New Flyer Industries Inc. is investing US$28 million in a new parts-fabrication facility just outside Louisville, Ky. as part of an on-going effort to bring more parts production in-house.
The 300,000-square-foot operation will make a wide array of parts for New Flyer’s transit buses and Motor Coach Industries’ highway coaches. It is expected to be fully commissioned by the end of 2019 when it will employ about 550 people.
It is the largest new facility developed by the Winnipeg-based bus maker in many years.
The decision to build its largest-ever parts shop has been some time in coming. Over the past six to seven years, New Flyer has been making an increasing number of its components at its own manufacturing facilities and has also acquired some key suppliers.
