Endress+Hauser (Reinach, Switzerland; www.us.endress.com) has opened a new production facility in Greenwood, Indiana. The 12,000-ft2 manufacturing plant will build temperature sensors, thermowells, transmitters, recorders, flow computers, safety barriers, displays and other instrumentation to meet the increasing demand for this instrumentation in North and South America. 
The new plant will build virtually all the components needed for the company’s temperature instrumentation, thus ensuring consistent quality. Every aspect of the manufacturing process, from the traceability on all components, through high voltage testing of every finished product, has been designed to deliver the highest quality product in the shortest amount of time, says the company. The plant will also have an NIST-traceable temperature calibration laboratory to ensure that all instruments leaving the factory are properly calibrated. The laboratory is undergoing accreditation for ISO17025, which is expected shortly.
“Sales of our temperature instruments in North America have increased by 40% so far in 2011,” says Hans-Peter Blaser, general manager of Endress+Hauser Wezter USA. “Endress+Hauser projects that annual sales of temperature instrumentation in North America will exceed $550 million in 2012,” added Blaser. “The new facility prepares Endress+Hauser to serve the growing demand, producing temperature instrumentation for the North American market, as well as products for export to South America.”
The temperature production facility is the second major manufacturing investment that Endress+Hauser has made recently in Greenwood. In 2007, Endress+Hauser expanded its flow instrumentation manufacturing plant (for more on this, click here).