Showplace Cabinetry has completed a 16,800-sq.-ft. expansion project linking the company’s two manufacturing plants in Harrisburg, South Dakota. The expansion provides a central shipping point for Showplace framed cabinetry and the increasingly popular frameless ShowplaceEVO line, as well as enhanced warehousing and transportation efficiencies companywide.
“Demand is up for all our cabinetry lines,” said Bill Allen, president and CEO of Showplace Cabinetry. “That demand required us to find an innovative solution to improved logistics and enhanced ShowplaceEVO production. The new warehouse and shipping link solves both challenges.”
With the opening of the new addition, completed ShowplaceEVO orders flow straight off the manufacturing production line into the central warehouse area and move directly to shipping, reducing the handling of completed cabinetry and maximizing efficiency. The space gained in the EVO plant by moving finished cabinet storage to the new connecting warehouse and shipping facility will increase EVO production capacity.
“By freeing up space in the ShowplaceEVO production plant, we have increased production capacity by 30%,” Allen said. “By January 2022, we will be able to manufacture up to 250 ShowplaceEVO cabinets a day.”
The $2.5 million project also streamlines logistics and handling, increasing shipping capacity for the company by 30% and creating a more efficient order flow from production to transportation. Since its founding in 1999, Showplace has responded to increased demand for its cabinetry lines with infrastructure investments, adding to the original Harrisburg plant in 2002, 2005 and 2007. The company’s door facility in Beresford, South Dakota, which was acquired in 2001, doubled in size in 2005, and the ShowplaceEVO manufacturing plant was built in 2015.
“We’re always ready to invest in the future of our company with increased production space and innovative solutions to meet the needs of our customers across North America,” Allen said. “This new expansion gives us the space we need to take our quality production and customer service to the next level.”
