Sherwood Valve announces plant consolidation

Roger Carlson, President of Sherwood Valve LLC, commented that, “The consolidation of production from three to two facilities will yield significant manufacturing efficiencies, contribute to streamlined administration practices and generate opportunities to leverage raw materials, inventories, labor skills and similar processes among Sherwood’s multiple product lines.”

Carlson further noted that, “We estimate the relocation of machinery and personnel to be complete within 3-6 weeks of our commencement date during the month of August.”

Dino Sciullo, Sherwood’s Director of Sales and Product Development, added, “We expect this consolidation will be transparent to our customers and suppliers and do not anticipate any delays in shipments and deliveries.”

“We have built sufficient inventories to satisfy current orders and we have secured adequate raw materials and component parts to supply each machine and process as it is relocated to Washington or Cleveland.”

The resulting manufacturing system at Cleveland will be the most complete, vertically integrated, valve production facility in North America with all processes from the smelting of brass chips to finished product occurring at a single location.

The incorporation of the remaining Niagara Falls activities into the existing product line capabilities at the Washington facility will provide Sherwood’s customers with the opportunity to consolidate shipments of multiple products into single freight movements and harvest the resulting transportation savings.

An additional benefit will be the ability to exploit freight resources and improve service to Sherwood’s international customers and global warehousing locations.