GIW Industries is expanding facilities in Grovetown and Thomson and will add 80 jobs.

Grovetown-based GIW, a subsidiary of KSB AG of Germany, embarked in January on a five-year expansion at both plants to double manufacturing capabilities that service a global mining industry, said company President and CEO Dennis Ziegler.

“We’ve added equipment and we’ve added many millions of dollars of capital, but we’ve just run out of space,” said Ziegler, adding that the company has doubled in size over the past decade. “And the requirements are for bigger pieces of equipment. We frankly need a larger way to do it to make it faster, quicker and safer.”

The projects will include increasing foundry and heat-treating capacities as well as building a 40,000-square-foot distribution center at the Grovetown production facility at 5000 Wrightsboro Road. The Grovetown expansion will result in the hiring of at least 50 highly-skilled factory workers and other staff members.

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