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About 60 positions making cylinder and valve components for Bobcat machines and attachments will begin production in a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility after the New Year, said Laura Ness Owens, spokeswoman for the West Fargo-based manufacturer. Bobcat signed a lease on a facility formerly used by Imation Corp., a computer diskette maker.
Bobcat announced in September that it would shut down its Bismarck manufacturing plant by the end of the year and lay off 475 workers while opening 390 jobs at its plant in Gwinner. At the same time, it made a decision to move 15 production jobs for its machine attachments to its facility in Litchfield, Minn., about 190 miles from company headquarters. Another 150 positions related to engineering, aftermarket sales, sourcing, and finance and accounting will stay in Bismarck.
Ness Owens said the company decided to move components production to Wahpeton instead of Gwinner because it needed a location near the two facilities in North Dakota and Minnesota. The components that will be built there are used in the machines built in Gwinner and the attachments built in Litchfield.
"We needed a space between Gwinner and Litchfield," said Ness Owens, who stressed that the new plans did not affect the total number of Bobcat jobs in North Dakota.
Many of the new positions in Gwinner will go to the 240 workers who have been laid off there. The positions in Wahpeton are not represented by the United Steel Workers, which represent the Bismarck and Gwinner employees, and will be open to the public.
Ness Owens said the company recalled about 45 workers in Gwinner about two weeks ago as some lighter production work begins moving there. The company will begin moving heavier production capacities from the Bismarck plant in early November and plans to have operations moved by January.
Jeremy Bauer, president of the United Steel Workers local in Bismarck, called the Wahpeton plant a "major undertaking" for the company while it was shutting down an existing plant here. The new operation will not have union coverage and he doubted Bobcat would hire union workers from Bismarck.
"We don't have any sort of negotiated power in hiring over there," Bauer said.
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