PARSIPPANY — Marotta Controls, a leading provider of aerospace and defense systems, has announced the opening of its new Parsippany facility, which will serve as the company’s Center of Excellence for Power and Actuation Systems. The building brings engineering, development, manufacturing, assembly and testing together under one roof for the first time, a move the company has been working toward for several years.
Power and Actuation Systems is Marotta’s youngest product line and, by all measures, its fastest growing. Engineering and program management have been based in Parsippany since 2022, but operations remained in Montville, the company’s original facility and headquarters since 1945. As the business continued to grow beyond the capacity of the Montville site, bringing the technical and operational teams into the same building became a key priority.
“The Parsippany facility was designed from a clean sheet of paper,” said Steve Fox, Senior Vice President, Power and Actuation Systems, Marotta Controls. “The goal was to achieve the lowest possible cost at the highest standard of quality; bringing design, assembly and test together is how you get there. By minimizing product movement and maximizing workflow efficiency we have the ideal environment for collaboration, innovation, and significantly reduced development timelines.”
The new facility, certified to the AS9100 aerospace quality standard, adds roughly fifty thousand square feet of manufacturing capacity and twelve thousand square feet of design and development lab space. The floor layout was designed using value stream mapping, enabling a logical, sequential flow from shipping and receiving through production and eliminating inefficiencies caused by movement across the facility. Vibration, thermal and shock testing are now conducted in-house as well, cutting down on the logistics of moving hardware between locations.
Unlike Marotta’s other business units, which are organized around specific markets, Power and Actuation is built around the products themselves; the division makes power supplies and actuation systems that work across platforms. The near-term focus is bringing those capabilities into naval and space programs where Marotta already has strong footholds, evidenced by its recent recognition from Lockheed Martin, which awarded the company its fifth Exceptional Small Business Performance Award.
“Power and Actuation has been our fastest-growing product line for a reason: the team delivers,” said Patrick Marotta, President and Chief Executive Officer, Marotta Controls. “This facility is our investment in their continued success, and another sign of our commitment to staying and growing right here in New Jersey.”
Over the past three years, Marotta has added roughly three hundred people companywide. The Parsippany facility was sized with that growth in mind, and the company expects to keep hiring as program wins in defense and aerospace translate into production demand.
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About Marotta Controls
Founded in 1943, Marotta Controls is a fully integrated solutions provider that designs, develops, qualifies and manufactures innovative systems and sub-systems for the aerospace and defense sectors. The company’s portfolio includes pressure, power, motion, fluid and electronic controls for tactical systems, shipboard and sub-sea applications, satellites, launch vehicles and aircraft systems. With over two hundred patents, Marotta Controls continues to build on its legacy as a highly respected, family-owned small business based in the state of New Jersey.
