Wichita, Kansas’ Cox Machine will spend $4 million to expand its main facility, adding 50 new jobs to its current workforce of 76. The new jobs will be added over the next several years. Founded in 1954, Cox Machine manufactures precision parts for the aerospace industry. Clients include Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems, Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Cessna Aircraft will cut an undisclosed number of jobs, after the aviation firm cut 6,900 positions this year. The small aircraft manufacturer currently has 12,000 employees. The firm is responding to order cancellations. It delivered 69 jets in Q1 2009, compared to 95 jets in Q1 2008. The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 30, 2009
Cessna Aircraft is closing an Oregon plant, and will lay off 1,600 workers across the firm. The company will be reducing production this year from 375 business jets to 325. The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Their main products are general aviation aircraft. Although they are the most well-known for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Cessna Aircraft has notified workers that more layoffs are coming as customers cancel or defer plane orders. The Wichita, Kansas-based manufacturer is cutting production at its Cessna and industrial business units. Cessna also is planning a two-week shutdown from July 6th to July 17th. The extent of the job and production cuts won’t be announced until April [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 27, 2009
The Cessna Aircraft Company has canceled both of its upcoming supplier symposiums and have handed out their supposedly last round of layoffs. Cessna spokesman Doug Oliver says the cancellations were another cost-saving measure in light of the current economic climate. “Like all the other companies, we feel that Cessna and our supplier base are looking for ways [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
The Greater Wichita Economic Development Coalition says it helped create 2,225 jobs in the Wichita, Kansas area during 2008. The organization said it easily exceeded both its goals for the year and for its first five years of existence. Since January 2004 the coalition has aided in the creation of 10,500 jobs with an annual payroll [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
Massive layoffs were ever present on Thursday as the tally of jobs lost reaches 13,000. Drugmaker AstraZeneca, photo company Eastman Kodak, aircraft company Cessna, truck manufacturer Oshkosh, retailer Bon-Ton, and Charles Schwab all announced that they would be laying off workers. Thursday was just another tragic day on the job market. The entire week has been mauled [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 29, 2009
Cessna Aircraft Company is located in Wichita, Kansas and manufactures freight and passenger aircrafts, as well as business jets and personal single engine planes. The company is owned by Textron Inc, who recently released a dismal fourth-quarter financial report. Amid declining revenues, Cessna has increased the number of jobs it plans to cut in 2009. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Textron will eliminate an additional 2,000 jobs by March at its Cessna subsidiary, the world’s largest manufacturer of business jets, as corporate customers cancel orders due to the economic meltdown and threats from Congress. Added to the 665 jobs already cut this month, the Wichita, Kansas-based Cessna is now slashing its workforce of 15,500 by about [...]
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Monday, August 10, 2009
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