Camso USA Leaving Joliet For New Quarters In Channahon

JOLIET, IL — Channahon village officials are excited that a Joliet manufacturing company has decided to move its employees to a new 252,000-square-foot warehouse in Channahon near the Amazon plant that is in the process of hiring at least 1,000 full-time employees.

Camso USA, a subsidiary of Michelin, plans to move into its new property overlooking Interstate 55 next month. Camso is vacating its Joliet property at 2700 McDonough Street in the coming days, according to Mike Petrick, Channahon's director of community development and information systems.

Camso will be moving into a year-old speculative building located on South Bradley Street.

"We serve the material handling, construction, agriculture and powersport industries by manufacturing and distributing pneumatic, airless and solid tires, tracks, driven and trailed conversion track systems and OEM undercarriages," Camso's business profile proclaims.

Camso's website indicates it has 22 manufacturing plants in 10 countries across North America, South America, Europe and Asia and 7,500 total employees.

Channahon has had a lot of new business developments of late. On Thursday, Patch reported on the construction progress of the new Love's Travel Stop at the Bluff Road exit for Interstate 55. Amazon has already opened one of its warehouses across the road from the new Love's, which will include a Godfather's Pizza, Arby's and Chester's Chicken.

Amazon's new 1 million square foot warehouse on Bradley Street and North Amoco Road is also set to open later this fall.

Petrick said the addition of the two Amazon warehouses will easily make Amazon the largest employer in the village of Channahon. For years, one of Channahon's drawbacks was that its daytime population was substantially lower because so many residents had to leave town for work.

Now, it seems that trend is reversing, according to Petrick.