Otto expands North Carolina facility

Charlotte, North Carolina-based Otto Environmental Systems North America Inc. has recently completed a facility expansion. The company says it has added 70,000 square feet of warehouse space “to serve various distribution and command center needs.”

The warehouse location near Otto’s corporate headquarters is part of the company’s overall vision to improve manufacturing operations, says the maker of waste and recycling containers and carts. “The expansion allows us to revolutionize operations in all aspects of our business,” says Otto CEO Robert Engle. “It allows Otto to invest in its people and in our community.”

The expansion will serve as dry storage for retail staging and raw materials, as well as control center for Otto Container Management (OCM). OCM is a service division providing what Otto calls “white-glove distribution and container management services” to the waste industry. Services include repairs, replacements, removal and washing services as well as assembly and distribution for container deployment projects.

Otto says its recent refinance efforts have funneled $18 million into its customer service and production processes. Recent activities include the addition of several large tonnage injection molding machines and associated multi-axis robots; refurbishing existing assets; and investments in state-of-the-art cloud-based technologies.

Otto Environmental Systems North America Inc. is a manufacturer of waste containers for residential, commercial and retail markets. The original Otto Group was founded in 1934 and now has more than 100 million carts in service around the globe, according to the company.