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Phoenix Contact spending $21M to expand logistics center
Listen to this articleYork Township-based Kinsley Construction, the midstate’s largest general contractor, is doing the site work and handling construction for the 66,331-square-foot addition, which is expected to wrap up by March 2019.
The construction of the building will cost about $12.5 million, according to Doug Ferguson, vice president of Americas operations services for Phoenix Contact. The rest of the roughly $21 million price tag includes logistics automation equipment and furnishing for the new space, Ferguson said.
Ferguson said the company’s facility on Fulling Mill Road has run out of distribution space. The expansion project will give it more room to grow. A 35,116-square-foot mezzanine in the new addition will expand office and laboratory space.
Phoenix Contact USA makes electronic components and is a subsidiary of German company Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. Phoenix Contact has 50 international subsidiaries.
The Dauphin County facility, which employs about 570 people, is the company’s U.S. headquarters. But local Phoenix engineers also design products to meet the needs of the company’s customers in North and South America, including Canada, Mexico and Chile.
Kinsley built the three previous additions for Phoenix Contact. The last one was completed in 2014 and added about 118,000 square feet of office and production areas to what was then a 235,000-square-foot facility.
In 2007, Kinsley built Phoenix Contact’s original logistics center, which was about 100,000 square feet. In 2010, Kinsley completed a project that took an old warehouse and converted it into manufacturing space for Phoenix Contact.
