Light & Motion will relocate to a refurbished helicopter repair depot that will provide twice as much space for its vertically integrated manufacturing operations.


The newly rennovated headquarters is located in “Hanger 535,” a military helicopter repair depot located in Marina, CA about 10 miles from the company's current headquarters. The new facility will double the company’s operations to 30,000 square feet.

 

“We are a team that loves product and our new building gives us more room to build it,” said Daniel Emerson, CEO of Light & Motion. “The idea of someone else building it for us would be like sending someone out to take your place on your Saturday morning ride. Building cool stuff is the point. Practice is how we get better and learn to design better products. The new building also provides more professional space for our team to work, and Marina is a great community for working folk.”

 

Emerson went on to say that at a time when most of Light & Motion’s competitors are offshore, his company “is swimming upstream, challenging conventional wisdom and demonstrating that USA manufacturing is profitable and leads to better products.


 

“Manufacturing jobs are good paying jobs, and they generate value for individuals and our communities,” Emerson continued. “Domestic manufacturing creates a far smaller environmental footprint than offshore supply chains.”

 

 

He noted that vertical integration streamlines the product development time. Design, modeling and prototyping take place on equipment and machinery a few steps from where the company’s engineering team works and the results can be shared immediately with the production team.

 

“Light & Motion is proof that investment in a local workforce and lean manufacturing practices can keep jobs here,” he said.


Light & Motion designs and builds adventure light systems in the U.S.A., to inspire exploration from day into night. The company awarded the 2012 “Cool California Award” for greenhouse gas reductions, the 2008 “California Small Business of the Year Award” and the “Waste Reduction Awards Program (W.R.A.P.) Award” for reducing its waste stream 5 years in a row.