Articles Tagged with ''Jobs''

LOUISVILLE, KY—Approximately 5,000 people attended the open house at GE’s Appliance Park to celebrate the creation of 1,000 jobs and the opening of two new assembly lines.

PULASKI, TN—Automotive supplier Magneti Marelli is planning to locate a new lighting assembly line inside its existing factory here.

LANSING, MI—GM has already hired 460 of the 600 workers it will need for a new second shift at its assembly plant here.

MEMPHIS, TN—Construction of the new Electrolux appliance factory in Memphis is on schedule, the company’s top U.S. executive said Friday. The first assembly line will start rolling by the end of the first quarter of 2013, and full production will ramp up by the end of 2014.

LINCOLNSHIRE, IL—A growing number of furniture and cabinet manufacturers are reshoring assembly from China and other low-cost labor countries.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—SwingGreen Inc., a manufacturer of heat-recovery systems, has opened a new assembly plant here.

DIXON, CA—Altec Industries Inc. has opened a new, $5.5 million assembly plant here. The energy-efficient facility, which employs more than 300 employees, makes specialty vehicles for electric utilities and other industries.

MEMPHIS, TN—Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. will build a $155 million assembly plant here to make transformers and generators.

CALEDONIA, WI—Motion control technology supplier Unico is spending $6 million to expand its assembly plant here and expects to create up to 175 new jobs in the next three years.