Manitowoc to close Cleveland Range Plant

The Manitowoc Company based in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, parent company of Cleveland Range, announced in a news release Monday, October 26, 2015 that it intends the close their Manitowoc Ovens Group facility by April 2016. Recently hired CEO of Manitowoc Foodservice Division and senior VP of The Manitowoc Company, Hubertus Muehlhaeuser, stated in the release that it was to “improve our operational efficiencies”, but then also stated that they were making “preparations for the eventual spin-off of the company’s Foodservice business in the first quarter of 2016."

Manitowoc was founded in 1902 as the Manitowoc Dry Dock Company, as a ship building and ship repair firm. In 1925 they developed the Manitowoc Speedcrane.