MONTREAL—Aerospace supplier Aerolia has leased a 7,300-square-meter building here to make fuselage assemblies for Bombardier business jets. The facility is expected to create 150 jobs.
ASHEVILLE, NC—GE Aviation will break ground this year for a new factory here to make components for jet engines. The factory could employ more than 340 people within five years.
WASHINGTON—U.S. worker productivity grew a modest 0.5 percent rate from January through March after having declined in the previous quarter. Weak productivity growth could boost hiring if consumers and businesses spend more.
MILWAUKEE—U.S. employers reported a boost in confidence as the percent of employers planning to add staff, 22 percent, has reached a four-year high, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
WASHINGTON—For 2013 as a whole, manufacturing production should increase 3.1 percent from 2012, according to the Manufacturing Alliance for Productivity and Innovation. Manufacturing is predicted to grow 3.6 percent in 2014, 0.8 percentage points faster than the overall economy.
ANDREWS, SC—Aerospace supplier Davis Aircraft Products expects to hire 100 people to work at its new $5.5 million assembly plant here when it opens next spring.
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC—Boeing is looking for a site to build a second assembly plant in South Carolina within 20 miles of the company’s existing factory here.
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. is a major player in the global business-aviation market due to its well-respected G series of aircraft (G150, G200, G450, G550 and G650). So it’s no surprise that the company operates manufacturing and mainte-nance facilities around the world, including several in the United States and one each in London and Mexico.
Twenty years ago, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) created the Joint Advance Strike Technology (JAST) program. The goal of JAST was to develop aircraft, weapons and sensor technology that would replace disparate United States and United Kingdom aircraft with a single family of aircraft.
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