Terex Cranes is closing its boom truck factory in Olathe, Kansas and relocating operations to its truck and rough terrain crane factory in Waverly, Iowa.
Booms and jibs have for some years been produced at Waverly, and the Olathe factory had become little more than an assembly plant, joining booms made elsewhere to commercial trucks bought from outside suppliers.
The Olathe factory was established by Ray Pitman as RO and became part of Terex in the mid 90s through the acquisition of Simon businesses, which by then included the RO product line. Boom trucks now account for 8% of Terex Cranes’ business.
Following the closure of Terex’s factory in Conway, South Carolina and Demag’s US location, Terex Cranes’ facilities in North America have now been consolidated into the old American Crane headquarters in Wilmington, North Carolina and the old Koehring factory in Waverly, Iowa.