SOMERSET, Pa. (Sept. 25, 2014)—To keep pace with demand since moving its China-based production lines back to the U.S. last year, DeVilbiss Healthcare has increased its U.S. workforce by more than 20 percent and is positioning for growth.
DeVilbiss has hired 33 assemblers, 1 manufacturing supervisor, 3 manufacturing engineers and a technician and 3 quality engineers and 2 technicians. The company also has increased its manufacturing hours from 12 hours a day to 16 hours a day with two separate 8-hour shifts.
“In today’s competitive marketplace, customers are demanding reliable products that help them lower their costs. The high quality and lower total cost of ownership of our products has driven our sales growth,” said Ed Murphy, president & CEO of DeVilbiss Healthcare. We have hired new people every month since returning these products to the USA.”
In 2007, the decision was made to move a number of DeVilbiss’ production lines to China in order to decrease production costs and remain competitive in the marketplace. In August 2012, DeVilbiss relocated the production of the China-based product lines back to Somerset, Pennsylvania. This project was completed in November 2013.
