Earlier this year, heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. chose Athens, GA, as the site for a new factory to assemble small tractors and excavators. The company will be reshoring some 1,400 jobs to the new facility from an existing plant in Japan.
There are a lot of ideas floating around Washington these days regarding the health and importance of U.S. manufacturing and what should be done about it.
Last September, Otis Elevator Co. announced that it was moving production from its factory in Nogales, Mexico, to a new, $40 million assembly plant in Florence, SC.