# Advanced Machine & Engineering breaks ground on $3.5M facility expansion in Rockford, Illinois

Advanced Machine & Engineering broke ground on a new $3.5 million facility expansion to support product growth and increase revenue. The expansion will create up to 100 new manufacturing jobs in Rockford.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2018-02-14
- Where: Rockford, Illinois, United States
- Value: $3.50M
- Jobs: 100
- 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)

## Sources

- [ffjournal.net](https://www.ffjournal.net/industry-news/5-news/14752-advanced-machine-engineering-receives-nomination-for-the-2018-technology-innovator-awards?highlight=WyJhZHZhbmNlZCIsIm1hY2hpbmUiXQ%3D%3D), 2018-02-14: "We take great pride in training our own, and our apprenticeship program provides students with 8,000 hours of manufacturing training in parallel of schooling at Rock Valley College - one small step towards closing the manufacturing skills gap in the U.S."

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