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Big Investment In Production Facilities Supports McCormick
Integration of McCormick tractor production into the ARGO Group’s headquarters manufacturing and assembly plant in Italy has been completed as part of a considerable investment in new and upgraded production facilities.
The McCormick CX and MC tractors previously built in Doncaster now share anexisting ‘four-cylinder’ assembly line, while the McCormick MC Power6, MTX and XTX tractors are built on an extensively upgraded line dedicated to six-cylinder engine models.
Integration of these tractor lines into a flexible mixed-product assembly process has significant cost advantages. In addition the McCormick products will benefit from being assembled at the heart of the group’s expanding R&D and engineering facilities.
Transferring production of McCormick’s ‘Doncaster’ tractors to the ARGO plant at Fabbrico in northern Italy has been a major exercise. The larger frame McCormick tractors required a new paint shop to handle the size and required more space on the assembly floor, which involved building a new production warehouse.
A modern quality-control and final inspection areas were also added to improve production process. In addition further investments were made at the AGRO groups cab manufacturing facility to allow for production of the modern McCormick cabs. The ARGO group aims to manufacture as much of the tractor as possible to ensure quality control and supply availability.
Future plans for the Fabbrico factory include relocating the design, engineering and R&D departments to an all-new facility to accommodate the extra engineers and other staff taken on to help develop the McCormick range.
In the meantime, the assembly line workers at the headquarters plant are producing 60hp to 200hp tractors at a rate of 56 per day, with some more capacity still to come.
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