Nilfisk, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of
professional cleaning equipment, today announced that it is moving its Americas
headquarters from Plymouth, Minn., to Brooklyn Park, Minn.
For the past 28 years, Nilfisk has maintained its Americas
headquarters in Plymouth, most recently in a 216,000-square foot facility
located near the intersection of Minnesota State Highway 55 and 21st
Avenue North. With its current lease set to expire in April of 2016, the
company has opted to build a new 182,000-square foot facility in Brooklyn Park’s
Northcross Business Park.
“With our lease expiring, we saw an opportunity to assess
our needs as it relates to production capacity and work flow and determine if
our current facility was sufficiently meeting those needs. In the end, we
decided that a new custom-built facility would serve us better, not just for today
but for well into the future,” said Diane Lapp, CFO of Nilfisk Americas. “Not
only will our new facility better serve our employees, but it will allow us to further
enhance our ability to provide world-class products and service to our
customers.”
Lapp added that the move, which will begin in the fourth
quarter of 2015 and be complete by the first quarter of 2016, will include all current
Plymouth-based employees, approximately 300, and all operations as they exist
today, including manufacturing and production, sales and marketing, R&D and
product management, and corporate services.
Northcross Business Park is located at the intersection of
Minnesota State Highway 610 and U.S. Highway 169, just 12 miles from Nilfisk’s
current location. Nilfisk is working with United Properties and Pope Architects
to develop and design its new space.
About Nilfisk
Nilfisk is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of
professional cleaning equipment with around 5,250 employees and an annual
turnover of EUR 881M. Based on a century of cleaning expertise, we develop and
manufacture high quality products that represent the latest technology and
innovation and offer the broadest product portfolio in the industry. Nilfisk
has sales companies in 45 countries around the world and with an additional
strong distributor network Nilfisk markets and sells its products in more than
100 countries worldwide. Nilfisk is a part of the NKT Group.
