MONTGOMERY, AL—Nearly 20,000 people have applied for the 877 new jobs that Hyundai is filling for a third shift at its assembly plant here, and applications are still coming.
PARIS, TN—Dana Holding Corp. will spend $3.8 million to expand its oil cooler assembly plant here. The investment is expected to create 49 full-time jobs.
MANATEE, FL—Veethree Electronics & Marine LLC, a supplier of mechanical and electronic instrumentation, has bought a new, larger assembly plant here and plans to add 20 jobs to its current 65 by 2015.
NuStep Inc. is not a big company. Based in Ann Arbor, MI, the exercise equipment manufacturer employs 80 people and tallied $24 million in sales in 2010.
EVANSVILLE, IN—Earthcare Energy has begun hiring workers for its new assembly plant here. The company makes turbines that capture the energy contained in pressurized natural gas.
SYRACUSE, NY—Bitzer Scroll Inc. is spending $5.5 million to expand is assembly plant here to make a new line of compressors. The company plans to add 60 jobs by 2016.
CHARLESTON, SC— From January 2010 to December 2011, the Charleston region experienced the largest growth in manufacturing jobs of any U.S. metropolitan area at 14.4 percent.
MIDDLETOWN, CT—Pratt & Whitney has decided to assemble the engines for the Airbus A320 at its assembly plant here, preserving thousands of manufacturing jobs.