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Henry Repeating Arms Headed to Wisconsin
More jobs are coming to western Wisconsin.
Henry Repeating Arms on Tuesday announced that its moving all manufacturing operations from its Bayonne, New Jersey facility to a newly expanded, state-of-the-art headquarters in Rice Lake.
“The major reason for the move is increased output capacity. We're fortunate to have seen a steady increase in demand for our firearms over the last 5 years, so we'll now be better positioned to meet this growing demand. It is also far more operationally efficient from a manufacturing, assembly, and distribution perspective to have all of our facilities within 45 minutes of each other,” Dan Clayton-Luce, Vice President of Communications for Henry, said. “Our Wisconsin footprint has been growing rapidly since we first started making complete firearms there over a decade ago, so this move is an extension of our investment in the company's future and where we're headed.”
Henry has been making guns in Rice Lake for years, and Clayton-Luce said it’s that history that pushed the company to invest more in the state.
“Our most recent expansion in Rice Lake added 12,500 feet of additional warehouse and office space to accommodate the additional volume of firearms we'll be shipping and the recent hires in our engineering department,” he noted. “Over the last five years, the company has heavily invested in cutting-edge machinery and automation to enhance throughput and quality, including more than 100 new CNC machines”
Henry already has over 800 people working in either its Rice Lake facility, or the nearby one in Ladysmith.
But more than just the new facility, Clayton-Luce, said there’s a connection that Henry enjoys with western Wisconsin.
“There's something to be said about purchasing a rifle for the deer woods of Wisconsin that was made in Wisconsin by the people who hunt those same woods. We take a great deal of pride in what we do and where we do it, and we want our customers to feel that,” he said.
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