AVT Beckett Elevators To Move U.S. Facility to Ohio

(l-r) are AVT Beckett Elevators’ Francisco Villatoro, plant manager; Barb Buchanan, president; and Darren Sullivan, principal; photo courtesy of AVT Beckett via The Highland County Press.

Pickering, Ontario, Canada-based AVT Beckett Elevators has announced the relocation of its Memphis, Tennessee, manufacturing facility to the MBS Logan spec building in Logan, Ohio, which was completed in 2022, The Highland County Press reports. AVT will initially employ at least 20 people at the facility where elevators are custom-designed and manufactured for customers across North America. The location is logistically situated for ease of access to raw materials and shipping of finished products to where they will be installed .AVT began in 2006, building structural and cab packages to supply to the Toronto elevator market. In 2008, it purchased long-running Beckett Elevators and added the Beckett UL-labelled elevator entrance and door packages to its product line, thus becoming AVT Beckett Elevators. JobsOhio and OhioSE were key partners in the search that brought the company to Logan. The relocation represents an investment of US$500,000 into the Hocking County facility and is supported by a JobsOhio Grant of US$75,000.