Boc Hydraulics opens $3M expansion

SALEM

Fourteen months of work came to fruition Friday as BOC Water Hydraulics opened a $3 million expansion.

BOC builds high-pressure water valves for steel, oil and gas refineries and marine industries, said Todd Olson, company president. As part of the expansion, BOC built a new office building that allowed it to dedicate an additional 15,000 square feet to production.

“The main point of this expansion was so we could crank out more stuff,”

Olson said. “The company has been growing at a rate

of 15 percent to 25 percent per year.”

The company had to expand because it ran out of room to make more valves, he said. BOC did $10 million in business in 2011.

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