Terex Corporation has announced it will move production from its plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to other Terex locations in North America, affecting 170 production workers. About 50 engineering, sales and service jobs will remain in Cedar Rapids. The firm will honor the contracts of its union workers. Non-union employees will get severance pay and outplacement assistance. The [...]
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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...Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Ormet has informed workers at its Hannibal, Ohio plant that 982 jobs will be cut. The layoffs will affect 833 hourly and 149 salaried positions. Founded in 1956, Ormet Corp. is an integrated aluminum producer, and manufacturer of custom and standard primary aluminum, foil, sheet, billet and other aluminum products. According to its website, the firm employs [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 24, 2009
Pratt & Whitney will relocate jobs its Cheshire, Connecticut repair plant to other company plants, in Columbus, Georgia and in Singapore. And an East Hartford airfoil repair plant would be closed, and its jobs sent overseas. One thousand jobs are in danger. Pratt & Whitney is an American aircraft engine manufacturer of products widely used in both [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 17, 2009
MTS Systems, which cut 150 jobs in February, announced this week it will cut 65 more positions. More job losses are scheduled for Q4 2009. MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC) is a testing and sensing solutions company located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. It is a leading provider of mechanical test systems, material testing, fatigue testing and tensile [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The State of Missouri is giving Danbury, Connecticut’s Praxair $92,913 in Enhanced Enterprise Zone tax credits to upgrade its Kansas City plant, creating three jobs. The plant supplies oxygen, nitrogen and argon to area companies. It currently employs 22 people. Praxair is the largest industrial gases company in the Americas, and one of the largest worldwide. The [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Start-up firm Premier Processing will launch a new metal finishing facility in Wichita, this Fall, creating over 100 jobs over the next five years. The firm is investing $3.8 million in Wichita. The state will provide funds for training. Other incentives may come from the city and county. Incorporated in 1870, Wichita is a city in, [...]
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
Auburn, Alabama’s Cumberland Plastic Systems intends to expand production capacity, and hire at least 51 employees over the next two years. Cumberland will invest $2 million to add more production lines. The firm is working with the Alabama Career Center Auburn-Opelika office to fill the positions. Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama. It is the largest [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Bucyrus International will cut an unspecified number of jobs at its factory and corporate headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An undisclosed number of production and administrative positions are being eliminated. Bucyrus has 1,600 employees in the Milwaukee area. Bucyrus International is a manufacturer of heavy mining equipment. Founded in Bucyrus, Ohio in 1880, its headquarters was moved to [...]
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