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Manufacturing company chooses Great Falls for new site
Manufacturing company chooses Great Falls for new site
Photo by: Janicki Industries
By: Madison Collier
Posted 12:07 PM, Jun 02, 2026 and last updated 34 minutes ago
GREAT FALLS — The Great Falls Development Alliance’s annual meeting gave business owners, city officials, investors and community partners a chance to look back on the past year and talk about where the region is headed next. This year, that conversation ended with one of the biggest economic development announcements Great Falls has seen in years.
Janicki Industries, a privately owned engineering and manufacturing company, has officially chosen Great Falls as the site of its next manufacturing campus. ... The company announced plans for an $800 million investment that will add 2 million square feet of production space over the next decade. Janicki expects to create 1,000 jobs within the first five years, with total employment exceeding 2,000 jobs once the campus is complete.
MTN previously reported that Janicki was considering Great Falls along with communities in Idaho for the project. Earlier this spring, Great Falls city commissioners also approved a tax abatement for the company as part of the effort to bring the project to Montana.
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MTN News
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[Jolene Schalper, executive vice president for GFDA] said Janicki’s decision brings more than one new facility to Great Falls. It also brings a new industry to Montana and creates opportunities in aerospace, engineering and advanced manufacturing that have been limited in the state. ... “There’s aerospace engineers that have no jobs in Montana. Well, now they do,” Schalper said. “They can move back to Montana. Kids that graduated from MSU with their degrees that couldn’t find jobs here, now they can come back home.”
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Photo by: Janicki Industries
By: Madison Collier
Posted 12:07 PM, Jun 02, 2026 and last updated 34 minutes ago
GREAT FALLS — The Great Falls Development Alliance’s annual meeting gave business owners, city officials, investors and community partners a chance to look back on the past year and talk about where the region is headed next. This year, that conversation ended with one of the biggest economic development announcements Great Falls has seen in years.
Janicki Industries, a privately owned engineering and manufacturing company, has officially chosen Great Falls as the site of its next manufacturing campus. ... The company announced plans for an $800 million investment that will add 2 million square feet of production space over the next decade. Janicki expects to create 1,000 jobs within the first five years, with total employment exceeding 2,000 jobs once the campus is complete.
MTN previously reported that Janicki was considering Great Falls along with communities in Idaho for the project. Earlier this spring, Great Falls city commissioners also approved a tax abatement for the company as part of the effort to bring the project to Montana.
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MTN News
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[Jolene Schalper, executive vice president for GFDA] said Janicki’s decision brings more than one new facility to Great Falls. It also brings a new industry to Montana and creates opportunities in aerospace, engineering and advanced manufacturing that have been limited in the state. ... “There’s aerospace engineers that have no jobs in Montana. Well, now they do,” Schalper said. “They can move back to Montana. Kids that graduated from MSU with their degrees that couldn’t find jobs here, now they can come back home.”
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