AP Tech gas-handling work relocates from Napa. Noblesville stays the North American floor.
SMC is moving AP Tech gas-handling work from Napa to Noblesville. More than 200 positions. The Indiana campus stays the North American floor - 345 acres, 560,000 square feet of manufacturing, a million-square-foot warehouse, about 1,200 people.
Valves, cylinders, vacuum, air prep. If a robot picks with compressed air, the kit often left SMC Boulevard. Pulling California lines into that campus is a consolidation, not a retreat.
Pneumatics are unglamorous until the gripper will not open. Noblesville is where SMC keeps that from being a boat from Japan.