VMI Moves to New Headquarters

Equipment producer VMI announces the moving of its French headquarters and its plant to new buildings, located in Saint-Hilaire-de-Loulay in the Marches de Bretagne business park.

The company considers the new premises will offer an improved work surface to VMI’s business in a modern facility, according to a recent statement.

Dominique Denoël, CEO of VMI, commented on this key step for the company: “This move is part of an ambitious company-wide project initiated in 2015. Over the last two years, this project was conducted at an exceptional pace, since the building phase per se only lasted eight months. Opening a new plant marks a major, symbolic step in our development process.”

The infrastructure available includes four identical, 24-metre wide, production halls, each equipped with either 2 x 10-tonne or 2 x 5-tonne overhead cranes, with a hook height of 8.5 m, to be used for the assembly of large size equipment, in step with with the evolution in market requirements. The overall production area will cover 13,000sqm (140,000 square feet), with three major architectural principles: the rationalization of flows, the modularity of spaces and significant extension capabilities. This will allow VMI to anticipate the organic growth of the company, and the development of its markets, according to the announcement.

In addition, VMI’s Research and Skill Center will have 700 sqm (7,500 sqf) at its disposal “and benefit from optimum conditions to continue and develop projects with its partners – whether industrialists, suppliers or university labs,” explains the specialist.

The company has left its historical flagship HQ in Montaigu, where it had set up in 1960, and organized the transfer of its production tool, without interrupting business.