# AME breaks ground on $3.5 million facility expansion in Rockford, Illinois

Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. broke ground on a 30,000 ft², $3.5 million facility addition in Rockford, Illinois, on December 19, 2017, expected to add up to 100 jobs and boost production capacity.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-12-01
- Where: Rockford, Illinois, United States
- Value: $3.50M
- Jobs: 100
- Starts operating: Jun 2018
- Status: under construction
- Products: precision machine tool components, metal cutting solutions
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md)

## Companies

- [Advanced Machine & Engineering Co.](https://endata.com/companies/18017.md)
- [Cord Construction](https://endata.com/companies/18018.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [hennigworldwide.com](https://hennigworldwide.com/news-and-events/ame-to-break-ground-for-new,-$3.5m-facility-expansion), 2017-12-11: "AME broke ground on a 30,000 ft², $3.5 million facility addition in Rockford, IL—led by Cord Construction."
- [hennigworldwide.com](https://hennigworldwide.com/news-and-events/facility-expansion-advances-manufacturing-in-the-rockford-area), 2018-03-01: "We’ve experienced some organic growth across several of our product lines, so to help keep up with the demand and decrease our lead times, we invested in a large Horizontal Machining Center from Toyoda Americas Corporation."

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