Following the company’s announcement of its plans to construct a second facility in Liberty, SC, FN America, LLC, a U.S. subsidiary of FN Herstal, S.A., a global firearms manufacturer, reported that an $18 million expansion of its Columbia, SC facility will take place later this year with an expected completion in the first half of 2024.
The expansion adds over 40,000 square feet of manufacturing capacity and office space, including a Design Center of Excellence, to enhance the company’s research and development for new products. The expansion will add 102 new positions.
“The record growth that our company has had these last several years has enabled us to invest in our South Carolina manufacturing footprint with our soon-to-be new facility in Liberty and now the expansion of our Columbia facility,” said Mark Cherpes, president and CEO for FN America, LLC. “We were established in Richland County more than 40 years ago to manufacture small arms for the U.S. Army, and we are proud to expand our capacity to support that sector of our business.”
For more than 40 years, FN’s production facility has been located in Richland County, SC, and has produced more than one million small arms under contract with the U.S. Department of Defense.
The company was established in the United States in 1979 and opened its doors in 1981 to produce the M240 medium machine gun, a variant of the FN MAG-58, under contract with the U.S. Army.
FN America employs more than 600 to produce firearms, accessories and other adjacent products for the U.S. military, law enforcement agencies and consumers.
