Both moves aimed at increasing capacity to meet rising power demand from AI and data centre projects.
Mission Critical Group (MCG), a US power systems and solutions provider, has opened a 266,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, expanding its low-voltage switchgear production capacity.
The site sits around 7.5 miles from MCG’s existing North Wales facility, and the two will coordinate switchgear production and metal fabrication. Limited operations began in May for training, with full production ramping up in September.
The expansion adds 300 jobs to the region. MCG will hold a career fair at the new facility on June 17, covering manufacturing, production, operations and skilled trades roles.
Switchgear has become a bottleneck component in data centre construction, with lead times stretching as operators race to bring AI capacity online. Additional domestic manufacturing capacity addresses that constraint directly, a factor Jeff Drees, chief executive of MCG, pointed to in describing the expansion as central to the company’s growth strategy and its ability to support “growing demand for critical power infrastructure well into the future.”
The facility opening lands alongside a separate restructuring move: MCG has consolidated seven legacy companies acquired over the past three years, Mission Critical Facilities International, JTS, Point Eight Power, SST, DVM Power + Control, Leman Engineering and Consulting, and TxLa Systems, under the single MCG brand, alongside a new corporate website.
For customers, the practical effect is a single point of contact across low- and medium-voltage electrical equipment, modular power systems, engineering and lifecycle services that were previously spread across separate brands.
Matt Coffel, chief commercial and innovation officer at MCG, said the aim was to “synchronise engineering, manufacturing, innovation, and service to drive the future of critical infrastructure.”
Together, the two moves point in the same direction: MCG positioning itself as a vertically integrated supplier capable of absorbing the scale of demand coming from AI infrastructure build-outs, where power delivery timelines have become as significant a constraint as compute availability itself.
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