Expanding change to robotic systems creating 100 jobs

The company plans an $11 million expansion in a new 200,000-square-foot facility next to its existing Moccasin Bend site.

The jobs will be added over the next three years, said Don Peters, vice president of operations.

“With the auto business moving to the South, regionally we’re in a good position,” Peters told the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

He said that after three years of 50 percent annual growth the company currently has 150 employees.

Peters said that while the company’s primary customers are related to the auto industry, it recently supplied all of the robotic welding systems for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle plant in York, Pa.

The new jobs will include engineering, machine trade and typical manufacturing positions, with average wages of about $19 per hour, he said.