Articles Tagged with ''General Electric''

AUBURN, AL—GE Aviation has opened a $75 million assembly plant here. The 300,000-square-foot factory will produce parts for commercial and military jet engines. It will employ 50 initially and up to 400 workers by the end of the decade.

SLATER, MO—GE has opened a new, $3 million assembly plant here to manufacture air filters for natural gas turbines. The facility employs 115 people.

NEW YORK—Four of the nation’s largest manufacturers—General Electric Co., Alcoa Inc., Boeing Co. and Lockheed-Martin Corp.—have launched an initiative to teach manufacturing skills to 15,000 veterans, who would then be hired by the four companies or matched to other jobs.

LOUISVILLE, KY—University of Louisville will offer graduate classes next to the assembly line at GE Appliance Park.

FORT WORTH, TX—GE has begun hiring and training the 275 employees for its new mining equipment and locomotive assembly plant here.

SCHENECTADY, NY—GE will unveil a new battery assembly plant here on July 10. The batteries are for backup power and energy storage in the telecommunications industry and for utility grids.

LOUISVILLE, KY—GE Appliances will hire 380 people for a new second shift at its refrigerator assembly plant here.

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.

LOUISVILLE, KY—GE has opened a new refrigerator assembly plant at Appliance Park here. It’s the second manufacturing facility the company has opened here this year.

LOUISVILLE, KY—As GE began production of electric water heaters at its newly renovated assembly plant here, company officials confirmed that hiring is under way for the launch of a refrigerator assembly line next month. The company plans to hire up to 1,300 people by 2014.