Auto supplier YKTA to create 650 jobs at $220M Alabama plant
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Governor Kay Ivey joined executives from auto supplier Y-tec Keylex Toyotetsu Alabama (YKTA) at a ceremony in Huntsville today to announce the company’s plans to invest $220 million to open a manufacturing facility that will create 650 jobs. The YKT Alabama facility will be located on the site of the Mazda Toyota…
Lockheed Martin breaks ground on new Alabama production facility
TROY, Alabama — Lockheed Martin today officially launched construction on a new missile facility at its Pike County campus, where the company is accelerating production of strike systems. Lockheed Martin said the new 225,000-square-foot facility, combined with the current cruise missile production factory on the Troy site, will provide the necessary space to meet the…
Hyundai marks opening of $388 million engine facility in Montgomery
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama LLC today celebrated the grand opening of its cylinder head manufacturing plant, a $388 million project that spurred the creation of 50 jobs. Governor Kay Ivey joined company officials and area leaders at the new plant in Montgomery, which is the third facility at HMMA to support production…
Auto supplier DaikyoNishikawa selects Alabama for first U.S. facility
MONTGOMERY, Alabama -– Governor Kay Ivey announced today that Japan-based DaikyoNishikawa US plans to invest $110 million to open an auto parts manufacturing facility in Huntsville to serve the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing U.S.A. assembly plant now under construction. The company, called DNUS for short, will create approximately 380 jobs at the new Alabama facility, which…
Milestone: First steel column rises at Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA has marked a milestone in its $1.6 billion project to build an auto assembly plant in Alabama as the first steel column is now in place at the construction site in Limestone County. The development signals that construction is well under way on the plant, which will produce…
Alabama officials applaud Bell’s plans to build Navy helicopter in Ozark
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Governor Kay Ivey today welcomed plans by Bell to assemble the U.S. Navy’s next-generation training aircraft in Dale County should Bell win a competition for the helicopter. “Bell could have not selected a more ideal location to conduct final assembly of the Navy’s new advanced helicopter trainer than Ozark and Dale County,”…
Supplier Toyota Boshoku to build Alabama manufacturing facility, creating 400 jobs
ATHENS, Alabama — Governor Kay Ivey joined representatives of Toyota Boshoku America and local leaders in Limestone County today to announce that the global automotive supplier plans to invest over $50 million to open a manufacturing facility in Athens, creating a total of around 400 jobs once full production is reached. The new Alabama factory…
GD Copper USA to add 40 jobs at Wilcox County manufacturing facility
PINE HILL, Alabama — GD Copper USA announced plans today to invest $3.5 million in its Alabama precision copper products manufacturing facility and create between 30 and 40 new jobs in Wilcox County. GD Copper USA, which operates a $100 million plant in the Thomasville/West Wilcox Industrial Park, said the new jobs will push total…
4 Alabama firms tapped for work on new Airbus A220 assembly line
Birmingham-based HPM, which is overseeing the construction of a second assembly line at Airbus’ manufacturing facility in Mobile, announced that four other Alabama firms will play major roles in the project. The new assembly line will allow Airbus to accelerate production of a second aircraft in Alabama, the A220 passenger jet. Airbus said the expansion…
GE Aviation to boost 3-D printing in Auburn with milestone expansion
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Governor Kay Ivey announced today that GE Aviation plans to invest $50 million to expand the additive manufacturing operation at its Auburn facility, the aerospace industry’s first site to mass produce a jet engine component using 3-D printing technologies. As part of the project, GE Aviation will create 60 jobs and install…
