BOGOTA, NJ — Jesco Iron Craft Inc. (Jescraft), a material handling equipment manufacturer, has announced that it will open a new manufacturing facility in Oxford, CT, with an anticipated opening date of March 2020.
ENFIELD, CT—CIRTEC Medical Systems, a contract manufacturer of medical devices, is planning to build a new 35,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility here.
MIDDLETOWN, CT—Pratt and Whitney unveiled a new state-of-the-art assembly line here. The horizontal assembly line suspends the engine from the ceiling, so it can move up, down and around, instead of the workers having to do all that. The assembly line will make engines for the Airbus 320 Neo passenger jet and the F-35 joint strike fighter.
TORRINGTON, CT—FuelCell Energy will invest $65 million to expand its assembly plant here. The project could create up to 325 jobs over the next four years.
MANCHESTER, CT—Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is predicting the state’s manufacturing industry will add 10,900 jobs between now and next October—one of the biggest increases in years.
NEW YORK—Manufacturing in the New York region expanded in July at the fastest pace in five months, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s general economic index.
