Rolls-Royce’s MTU Aiken manufacturing facility is celebrating its 10 years of successful operations. Th e 395,000-sq ft campus, which produces MTU-brand off -highway diesel engines, opened in the fall of 2010 when the company decided to move its manufacturing operations from Detroit, MI to Graniteville, Aiken County, SC.

“Th e original goal of the Aiken plant was to carve out our own space where we could take greater control over our destiny and our manufacturing here in the US,” said Joerg Klisch, Director of Operations at the MTU Aiken plant. “Everything that we’ve been able to achieve here over the past 10 years refl ects the positive culture and spirit of innovation that we have. We have continually challenged ourselves to take on the next program or develop the next competency, all with a focus on developing our people and our community along the way.”

Th e facility began with the assembly of MTU Series 2000 and Series 4000 diesel engines, which together cover a power range from 760-4,000 hp and are used in a variety of off -highway applications in the construction, industrial, power generation, mining and oil and gas markets.

After its official opening in December 2010, where the focus was solely on getting assembly operations up and running, the plant brought machining operations online soon aft er, allowing the facility to machine its own components on-site. Th e next capability to be added, which is currently underway, is remanufacturing and overhaul of engines for customers in the Americas.