HUNTSVILLE, AL — Blue Origin, the rocket company started and led by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has opened a new rocket engine manufacturing plant here.

HUNTSVILLE, AL—Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin LLC has officially started construction on a factory here that will produce the BE-4 engines to power both the New Glenn and United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rockets.

HUNSTVILLE, AL——Blue Origin will invest $200 million to build a new factory here to make rocket engines. The facility is expected to employ 342 people.