Power-One has eliminated 300 jobs, or 6.6% of its workforce, including 10 at its Camarillo, California headquarters. Most of the cuts were made in China, the Dominican Republic and Slovakia. The firm laid off 1,000 in January. After the latest cuts, it employs 3,200, mostly abroad. Founded in 1973, Power-One designs and manufactures power conversion and power management [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Baldor Electric will expand its Weaverville, North Carolina plant, creating 32 jobs. The firm has been offered $64,000 in One North Carolina Fund incentives, and will invest $4.8 million itself into the expansion. The jobs will pay an average of $42,000 per year. Fort Smith, Arkansas-based Baldor Electric Company markets, designs, and manufactures industrial electric motors, mechanical [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 25, 2009
Baldor Electric will invest $12.2 million in Kings Mountain, North Carolina operation, as it moves its South Carolina operations to other locations. The State of North Carolina has offered the firm $157,000 in incentives. The Kings Mountain plant in currently employs 500. The new jobs will pay an average wage of $38,000. The firm is shuttering its Fort [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Rockford, Illinois-based Sauer Danfoss has laid off 145 employees at its Ames, Iowa plant. In 2008, the Ames plant employed 1,150 people. Since then, the factory has cut 39% of its workforce. Once the current round of layoffs in complete, the Ames facility will have only 700 workers. Sauer-Danfoss designs, manufactures and markets engineered hydraulic, electric and electronic [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania’s International Battery will add 300 local jobs by the end of 2010, if it receives a $100 million federal Department of Energy grant to expand its industrial battery manufacturing plant. The plant produces large lithium batteries used by electric utilities, electric vehicles, and by the Army to provide mobile power for soldiers. Founded [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 29, 2009
General Electric will cut 60 jobs from its plant in West Burlington, Iowa, which manufactures low-voltage switchgear. Some of the reductions will come from early retirees. The facility currently employs 313 people. As of the 2000 census, West Burlington had a population of 3,161. The General Electric Company, or GE, is a multinational technology and services conglomerate incorporated [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 8, 2009
France’s Schneider Electric will shut down a plant in Seneca, South Carolina, laying off 90 people in the town of 7,700. The firm will send the work to factories in Monterrey, Mexico. Those laid off will get severance pay and outplacement. Paris, France-based Schneider Electric was founded in 1836 and manufactures electrical equipment. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Saturday, April 11, 2009
Alcan Cable, which supplies 600 volt underground power cables and transmission cables to utility businesses and distribution warehouses, has laid off 32 employees at its Wilbur, Oregon production plant. Alcan has six plants in North America, including two in Canada and four in the US. The company hopes to re-hire those laid off when the economy turns [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 3, 2009
Tempe, Arizona’s Insight Enterprises has laid off 270 people, about 8% of its North American workforce. Company officials said 80 of those jobs were in Arizona. This is the second round of job cut in less than six months for the electronics manufacturer. In November, the company announced it was laying off 240 people. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Thursday, March 19, 2009
American Power Conversion will relocate its Rhode Island manufacturing & distribution operations from West Warwick to a plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania, eliminating 75 jobs. Another 25 jobs will be moved. The firm’s corporate headquarters will remain in Rhode Island. Laid off employees will get a severance package and placement assistance. The company manufactures equipment to manage power for [...]
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