New heights Terex Utilities’ new building in Watertown, S.D., will consolidate 10 manufacturing facilities into one

from Prairie Business December 2018

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WATERTOWN, S.D. – Stand on your hat and you can see 15 miles, as the saying about the eastern Dakota prairie goes.

On this landscape, after all, a highway overpass is a meaningful rise.

So if you’re looking for reasons why a leading manufacturer of utilityindustry aerial devices has prospered in Watertown – so much so that the company now is building a 450,000-square-foot manufacturing facility –maybe that’s one.

It could be that South Dakotans simply appreciate the power of elevation, and take pride in building machines that can safely lift workers to lofty heights.

Terex Utilities today builds aerial devices and auger drills as well as digger derricks – vehicles that drill holes in the ground, then lift and secure utility poles into place – in about 10 buildings around Watertown, said Alan Stager, the company’s finance director.

When it opens in 2020, the new facility will bring all of those operations under one roof.

“In this facility, we’ll manufacture and assemble our fiberglass booms, and there’s a section of the building that is a multi-story high bay to allow the booms be raised inside the building and testing to be performed,” he said.

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THIS AERIAL VIEW FROM NOV. 9, 2018, SHOWS THE 55-ACRE SITE IN WATERTOWN, S.D., ON WHICH TEREX UTILITIES NOW IS BUILDING ITS 450,000-SQUARE-FOOT MANUFACTURING FACILITY. IMAGE: TEREX UTILITIES

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Also within the building, the booms will be painted, inspected and installed on commercial truck chassis for delivery.

Construction began in August and is taking place on a 55-acre site that had been owned in part by the Watertown Development Corp.

South Dakota competed against several other states for the new plant, said South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard at the groundbreaking ceremony earlier this year.

“Terex is the sort of company that, when given the opportunity to

SOUTH DAKOTA GOV. DENNIS DAUGAARD AND WATERTOWN, S.D. MAYOR SARAH CARON WERE AMONG THE OFFICIALS WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONIAL GROUNDBREAKING FOR TEREX UTILITIES' NEW MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN WATERTOWN. IMAGE: TEREX UTILITIES expand or relocate, can do it just about anywhere around the globe,” Daugaard said.