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The distinctive Orthman blue of the company’s equipment is a result of a meticulous paint job that runs each piece first through a wash bay (1), then a programmed paint booth (2), and finally a curing oven (3).
Orthman Conveying Systems Celebrates First Anniversary in Texas
By Sharla Ishmael
Everyone knows how painful moving can be with the packing, planning and changing all your services and mailing address — but imagine moving a whole company 700 miles away to a new state. On top of that, That’s the scenario Jimmy Rios was asked to navigate when Orthman Manufacturing Inc. in Lexington, Nebraska, made
Rios, who worked for OMI but lived in Texas, knew the local Dallas-Fort Worth area would be a great environment for the newly independent Orthman Conveying Systems. For one thing, there was a ready-made labor force as the Fort Worth area is in this exact type of manufacturing.
Secondly, Texas is famous for its business-friendly tax and the past 10 years that over 1 million extra people now call the DFW metroplex home, helping it grow into the fourth-largest metro area in the country.
“Our company is poised to take the next step in growth and we felt this was the best place to do that,” Rios says. “One of the main reasons was simply human capital, but also the supply chain here. We now have access to all the same materials and supplies
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The company’s new home is just down the street from a outskirts of Cleburne, a rapidly growing city about 30 miles south of Fort Worth. Orthman bought a 20,000-square-foot building and added another 40,000 square feet. The new facility houses three main products lines — screw conveyors, belt conveyors and
custom shade of blue, can be found in a broad range of heavy industries, from rendering to oil and gas, recycling and cement wastewater, to name a few.
“We have doubled our head count of employees in all areas brought two people from Nebraska, a sales team member and excess capacity right now because of our commitment to the growth we want to have here. We’ve been able to add product lines and people.
developed throughout the years because people in this industry
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