nVent Electric plc announced the official opening of its first North American power distribution unit (PDU) manufacturing facility in Tucson, Ariz. The new facility will be the third to manufacture intelligent PDUs for nVent's CIS business. The 35,000 square foot facility will employ 100 employees, with a capacity to manufacture 40,000 intelligent PDUs annually.

The space features cutting edge automation and precision engineering, with two programmed assembly lines, electronic testing machines and an advanced engineering test lab.