Taylor Sudden Services ready to move into new building

Construction of the Taylor Sudden Service Inc. building in the Philadelphia-Neshoba  County Industrial Park is nearly complete and company officials are looking forward to getting it operational.

“We will be blowing and going in this building,” said Joe Cowart, director of  industrial engineering and quality for Taylor Machine Works. “We are putting in a paint booth. They are putting in some lights that were on back order. Then we hope to be in the building by the end of the week.”

The company already has plenty work lined up.            

“The new building adds capability and capacity,” Cowart said. “It frees up space in the buildings where other machine work can be done. It also allows us to  hang masts and pull masts whenever we want. We have had to rely on crane rentals to take the masts off the large machines because they wouldn’t physically fit in the buildings.

The Neshoba County Board of Supervisors built the building and will be renting it to Taylor Sudden Service through a 15-year lease-purchase agreement. The Community Development Partnership has worked with the company and the county to bring the deal together.

Taylor Sudden Service is owned by the Taylor Group of Companies, headquartered in Louisville where the company was founded. Taylor does business all over the world, building and servicing large fork lifts and other machines and equipment.

Around 110 people work for Taylor in Philadelphia. This expansion is expected to add 15 jobs.

The 7,600 square-foot building will have three bays,  including one with a 65-foot roof that houses a 20-ton crane. The building will be where Taylor repairs, retrofits and services the large fork lifts and other equipment they make. Some of the work will be for machines that are used to unload the containers from ships in ports around the country and the world. Other machines, such large log stackers, will also come here. They will be broken down on site and trucked to Philadelphia for repairs and then sent back out.

“The building mimics our large R&D building in Louisville,” said Cowart. “Philadelphia is one of our primary hubs for rebuilds and remans. The bulk of the trucks for Taylor Leasing and Rental come through there. We make them rental ready. We will repaint them, change masts change forks, whatever is needed for it to go to next customer.”

Taylor Sudden Service has three other buildings in the Industrial Park. The first building beside the water tower is for parts making. There, they build machine parts cut and fabricate stock. The other buildings do the repair and refabricate older equipment to be used by customers and in the rental fleet.

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