Roper Industries is relocating an Illinois subsidiary that manufacturers refrigeration equipment parts to Commerce late this summer.
The move will bring in 50-60 jobs to the Commerce facility, says Walt Stadnisky, president of Roper Pump Company.
The announcement was made April 22 to Hansen Technologies Corporation employees at the Burr Ridge, IL, plant. Roper employees got the news the next day.
The operation, which supplies refrigeration control valves and accessories for industrial and commercial cold storage facilities that use ammonia, will require about 30,000 square feet of the Roper building.
“We are reconfiguring the inside and doing a couple of small additions,” Stadnisky said. “We’re adding two receiving docks and extending the parking lot. We’ve got to look at the truck traffic and re-route the driveway because the inbound truck traffic and outbound truck traffic will roughly double.”
In addition to providing new jobs here, the relocation of Hansen could give some Roper employees new opportunities.
“A couple have been given the opportunity for promotion,” Stadnisky said. “The supervision will come, in part, from our people here, so it does create opportunities for growth for folks who are here.”
It also offers a chance for former Roper employees who have been laid off or furloughed to get back to work, he noted.
