apparatus firegeezer on 14 Jul 2008 04:53 pm
ALF Moving Firetruck Construction Out Of South Carolina
AMERICAN LaFRANCE HAS ANNOUNCED THAT they are relocating all of their fire apparatus manufacturing operations out of their Summerville, South Carolina facility.
Summerville plant
The troubled plant was never able to get production up to speed and led to the vintage manufacturer to file for bankruptcy. The court approved their reorganization plan on April 30, but they never made public until now their plans to resume full operations.
The Summerville plant is a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility that was architecturally designed to look like a firehouse. ALF says that they will continue to use the South Carolina plant to manufacture heavy-duty trash hauling trucks.
The firetruck business will be consolidated in their two other plants in Hamburg, New York, and Ephrata, Pennsylvania. The Hamburg and Ephrata facilities have a combined total of 184,000 sq. ft. of space. The Summerville plant that they are leaving has 440,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing area.
Left: Hamburg plant. Right: Ephrata plant
There is expected to be more detailed information available tomorrow. This report was based on information from the Charleston Post & Courier and the American LaFrance website.
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on 14 Jul 2008 at 9:45 pm 1.Bob Hess said …
That’s so sad. I was at the plant open house last fall and it is a beautiful facility.