SEGUIN, TX—Automotive supplier Continental will invest more than $113 million in its assembly plant here, adding production of automotive sensors. This facility will be the first outside of Asia and Europe to assemble these components, and will create approximately 300 full-time jobs over the next five years.
ARLINGTON, TX—GM will start building a $200 million stamping factory here next week, a move that will save the automaker about $40 million a year in logistics costs and add 180 jobs.
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.
PORTSMOUTH, NH—Westinghouse’s nuclear components manufacturing facility in Newington, NH, is expanding and is hosting a job fair Tuesday, Jan. 31, from noon to 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn on the Portsmouth traffic circle. Westinghouse is seeking qualified candidates for positions in the following areas: Quality inspection and engineering, fabrication, industrial hygiene, maintenance scheduling and production planning.
CINCINATTI—Local manufacturers are revving up efforts to attract the region’s youngest workers to high-tech factory jobs of the future: Increasingly, they’re offering high-school kids job-shadowing opportunities, scholarships and apprenticeships where students split time between work and school.
CLAREMORE, OK—Baker Hughes, a manufacturer of pumps for oil and gas drilling sites, is investing $80 million to build a new manufacturing and R&D center here. The company is adding 600 to 700 jobs.
AURORA, IL—Intellectual property theft has forced a manufacturer of audiovisual mounts here to reshore production just two years after moving it to China.