Tag: Alabama

June 13, 2024

Building the skills and competencies of American workers is essential to ensuring the competitiveness of business in the global economy. The public workforce system recognizes that workforce training for individuals must align with the needs of business and industry. There […]

November 28, 2023

A $30 million workforce training center focused on electric vehicle technology will be built in Decatur, Ala. Gov. Kay Ivey made the announcement the morning of Nov. 27. The facility will be located on the campus of the Alabama Robotics […]

October 23, 2023

Airbus recently broke ground on the third Family Final Assembly Line (FAL) for its Mobile, Alabama growth project that will bring 1,000 jobs to the area. It’s the latest move in a project that Governor Kay Ivey said represents a […]

July 17, 2023

Core Industries plans to invest $8.75 million to construct a processing and storage facility at its port facility in Mobile County, Alabama. The project will support a contract to handle wood pellets for CM Biomass, and create 28 jobs over […]

June 22, 2023

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) will invest $232 million in Gadsden, Alabama. Gadsden will be the location of the company’s MMR Assembly Plant (MAP). The highly automated facility will manufacture, assemble, test, and inspect the non-radiological modules needed to construct […]

October 18, 2021

Together with state and community leaders, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama (TMMAL) held an event to celebrate the first of Toyota’s latest engine products for the all-new 2022 Tundra to come off the production line. These new engines, a hybrid electric […]

February 18, 2019

Airbus has broken ground on a new A220 aircraft manufacturing facility in Alabama, USA. Located in Mobile, Alabama, the new assembly line will be the company’s second US-based commercial aircraft production facility. The $300mn assembly plant is expected to assemble […]

January 22, 2019

Airbus’ manufacturing growth in the US has stepped up a gear, launching a ground-breaking ceremony of its new A220 manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama. The assembly line will satisfy growing demands across the US for the A220 aircraft, the newest […]

December 4, 2018

A new $1.67 billion in a new manufacturing plant in Jackson County, Ala. was announced on Nov. 26. SK innovation, a developer and manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for hybrid electric vehicles, will create more than 2,000 jobs at the plant […]

March 5, 2018

Hyundai Motor Co. warned it may rethink how many vehicles it builds in the U.S., joining the world’s largest automakers in speaking out against U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on steel and aluminum imports. “Changes to the existing tariff structure […]

October 6, 2017

A little more than 20 years ago, the Mercedes-Benz W163, dubbed “Job1,” rolled off the assembly line at the company’s U.S. plant in Vance, Ala., launching the M class. It was a risky experiment for what was known then as […]

March 11, 2016

As the presidential campaign heads into Ohio and other midwestern states, candidates on both sides of the aisle are talking up manufacturing job loss and trade. The candidates say they’ll bring back jobs from overseas — and over at Medium, […]