New Zorn Compression & Equipment facility opens in Lawrence

Rich Palzewic

Staff

January 26, 2026

TOWN OF LAWRENCE – Zorn Compressor & Equipment’s new facility in the Town of Lawrence is up and running – an expansion President and CEO Matt Zorn said “was long overdue.”

“We had been in our building since the 1970s, so the move to Lawrence was quite the undertaking,” he said.

First sharing Zorn’s need for a new facility in the Dec. 30, 2024, issue of The Business News, Matt said the new building replaced the company’s old facility in Green Bay at 733 Mike McCarthy Way and “opens new doors and market potentials for us.”

Located at 2851 American Blvd., Matt said the new 12,500-square-foot building features office and warehouse space, as well as a “much-needed” loading dock.

A long time coming

Matt said the company had been searching for years for a location to buy or build, but the right spot hadn’t presented itself.

“When the opportunity came up in the Town of Lawrence, it was almost like it was meant to be,” he said. “At that point, we moved rather quickly. We were out of space at that old location for years, and there really wasn’t anything we felt was worthy to buy and fix up. If we were to build, we didn’t want to be too far away from the City of Green Bay.”

According to zornair.com, the Lawrence facility joins others in Pewaukee, Madison, Wausau and Eau Claire, as well as two Illinois branches in Gurnee and Woodridge.

Matt said the family-owned company is a compressed air and vacuum solutions provider that sells and services air compressors, vacuum pumps, fluid coolers and chillers and more.

“Our growth over the years led to us running out of space,” he said. “In all the years we operated out of the previous location, we did so without a loading dock. We’re starting to unload larger equipment, and we just didn’t have much space to move that stuff.”

The new facility, Matt said, addresses Zorn’s immediate needs – almost doubling the square footage of the old location.

“From a property standpoint, we’re probably 10 times the size we were before,” he said. “We’re now on four and a half acres. The much larger property makes it easier for large trucks to get in and out, we have a larger parking lot, etc. It’s an environment that makes it much easier for us to do business.”

Matt said the additional space has allowed Zorn’s service technicians to work more efficiently.
“I think another advantage of the move is now we’re in more of an industrial area,” Zorn’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Todd Dunn, said. “We’re basically in a brand-new industrial park compared to the [Lambeau Field] Stadium District, which is more of an entertainment area. We’re an industrial company now located in an industrial park, so I think the move is good.” 

Though future expansion isn’t out of the question, Matt said “I don’t see that happening anytime soon – not within the next five years at least.”

“If we had needed something bigger now, we would have simply built this new facility larger to begin with,” he said.