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to the growth of our operations in Greer, and ultimately to this new facility,” said Precorp Inc. President Rich Garrick in a news release for the building’s official launch this week. Even with 100 employees in the new space, Precorp in Greer has room to grow, since the facility is only at 60 percent of capacity, said Dodds. “What the market is going to require for the type of product we make, we do plan to completely fill this factory,” he said, referring to both office space and manufacturing floor availability. “It depends on our customers, but part of getting into this building as quickly as we could was we’re prepared for their ramp-up as well.” Precorp both designs and manufactures machining tools to make holes in aircraft for big aerospace names such as Boeing, Airbus, Spirit and Embraer, as well as automotive companies around the country. Innovation with new materials has sparked demand for lighter, more efficient airplanes, which means manufacturers need drilling and reaming tools that work with many different types of composites, often in the same sheet with the same tool, said Dodds. “Completely different materials drill differently, react different,” he said. While Precorp can sometimes use existing tool plans, around half of the tools made in the Greer facility are engineered, designed and manufactured on the spot. The company is a member of the machining solutions group of Sandvik, a 47,000-employee engineering company operating from 130 countries that focuses primarily on tools and tooling solutions for mining, construction and other industries. Precorp expanded to the Upstate in 2004, starting with just five local employees, said Dodds. In the competitive Upstate job market, the new facility has already helped in recruiting efforts, he said. “This county in particular is very competitive with GE and other companies that pull talent,” he said. “You have to have things that excite young people to the industry, and I think our facility and our industry has those characteristics.”
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