Modular home manufacturer Boxabl is expanding its operations with a second manufacturing facility close to its North Las Vegas headquarters. The new 120,000-square-foot warehouse is expected to help the firm increase its production by at least 50 percent and add 100 jobs, bringing its total workforce up to 300, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The company, which builds 20-by-20-foot studio homes, or casitas, that can be folded into a box and shipped worldwide, opened its first warehouse in 2021. The company says it currently has a waitlist of 150,000 customers.
Christian Kirchen, director of manufacturing at Boxabl, said the new building allows it to “open up space” at its first warehouse, called Factory 1. “The main part of our new operation is going to be the conveyance system. That’s going to get us really on our road to be like automotive manufacturing facilities,” Kirchen said.
Boxable CEO Paolo Tiramani said the company's goal is to have operations worldwide and build a home every 60 seconds, reports the Review-Journal. It currently takes an estimated four hours to complete one unit, but Factory 2 will shave the production time down to just 20 minutes once its operational by the end of the year, according to Paolo Tiramani.
So far, the company has manufactured 300 homes. Paolo Tiramani said training employees and figuring out how to manufacture the homes on a larger scale explains the limited output, but noted that more homes will be produced at a quicker rate as more factories come online.
Its first Boxabl factory is able to produce 3,000 homes annually, and the addition of Factory 2 will help increase its production to 4,500 and 5,000 homes each year, according to Paolo Tiramani.
Further expansion plans include opening a factory that is at least 1 million square feet within the next three years, reports the Review-Journal.