Jewell Attachments Celebrates Grand Opening

Jewell Attachments has announced the grand opening of its new, 60,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Portland, Ore., suburb of Tualatin.

Customers, dealers, vendors, suppliers and personnel from Jewell’s parent company Paladin all attended the opening day celebration. The ceremonial ribbon cutting was shared by founder Jim Kirkpatrick, General Manager Dannie Smith and Paladin Chairman Bill Van Sant.

Tours of the plant were conducted throughout the day.

“This is a day to which we’ve all looked forward for some time now,” said Van Sant. “This new facility will allow better manufacturing techniques to take hold, reduce lead times and afford an overall streamlining of the production process. It will also allow Jewell to make that leap to the next level in serving new customers and new markets, a move that was simply not possible in the company’s previous location.”

Key components of the new facility include a 48-foot CNC controlled plasma burn center, multiple machining centers, areas for fabrication, overhead cranes with 5-ton to 20-ton capacities and enough floor space to accommodate a sizable number of excavator conversions, attachments or components simultaneously.

Jewell Attachments specializes in conversion of excavators for special-duty use in the logging, material handling, demolition and construction industries, as well as manufacturing of equipment and attachments for use in those and other industries.