Ground-breaking ceremony for new production hall in Birr

Birr AG, February 2025

BRUGG Lifting has laid the foundation stone for the Industrial Park 2025. This marks the start of construction work on the new production hall 6, which will be used for logistics and efficient goods handling. The company is investing a total of 13 million Swiss francs at its site.

BRUGG Lifting, part of the BRUGG Group from Brugg AG, is starting the second expansion phase of its Industrial Park 2025 at the Birr site in January. The symbolic foundation stone for the new production hall 6 has now been laid with a ground-breaking ceremony in front of guests from local politics, business and the media. “With this project, we are sending out a strong signal of our innovative strength and our commitment to the region,” said CEO Markus Grüter in a press release.

Production hall 6 will be equipped with two automated small parts racks and will also serve as a logistics centre. Three loading ramps will also be integrated. The investment totals 9.5 million Swiss francs. The construction work is expected to be completed in February 2026.

In a first step, the new belt sheathing system – the production machine for the flat belts of the BRUbelt lift system – was built in the existing production hall. The costs for this totalled 3.5 million Swiss francs. At the same time, a new sliding rack was built to support production, providing storage space for over 1600 pallets for finished products, raw materials and semi-finished products. The lightweight hall was put into operation together with the mobile racking system on 6 December 2024.

“The new production hall enables optimal integration of the new belt casing system and creates an efficient flow of goods with a modern logistics concept,” says Grüter. “The maintenance area will also be modernised to better integrate our apprentices.”

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