Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships are risky endeavors for managers, as well as workers. Sometimes these transactions favor one group over another, or end up being disastrous for both groups. Other times, however, the deal turns out great for everyone.
VICTORIA, TX—Caterpillar will move its vocational truck manufacturing operation from Mexico to its assembly plant here. The move will bring 200 new jobs to the facility.
MOLINE, IL—The U.S. Department of Labor claims Deere violated a federal whistleblower provision by firing a pipe fitter who had reported unsafe working conditions at a company’s cylinder factory here.
GAINESVILLE, GA—Kubota Manufacturing of America Corp. plans to increase production capacity the U.S. by building a 502,000-square-foot assembly plant and expanding its existing operations here.
Hard at work within Shelbourne Rey-nolds Engineering’s Suffolk, UK, manufacturing plant are nearly 100 assemblers and the latest equipment to build attachments for articulated hedge cutting tractors.
When Dennis Kubica founded Kubica Corp. 20 years ago, he had an electrical engineering degree from the University of Michigan-Dearborn—and plenty of real world experience as an engineer, a research and development specialist, and a project manager for ABB, General Motors and Motor City Electric.