When the economy goes down fewer people build, and that means fewer jobs for workers in construction trades, and in the current economic situation the jobs for construction workers have gone down the drain, but it look like those hard working people may have a reason to be happy in 2012. According to a recent [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Around 50 workers face impending lay off as the Olin Corporation, a Missouri-based company and major manufacturer of ammunition and chlorine and sodium hydroxide, plans to overhaul its Charlston, Tennessee plant to eliminate the use of mercury cell process and convert it to a membrane cell technology when producing potassium hydroxide. The company is set [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 23, 2010
Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a Chicago-based placement firm, has just released a report surveying the current job market. Contrary to public sentiment, the firm reports that there are various trends that show signs of a significant job market recovery. Among those signs is a boost in new jobs as well as a slowing in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Today, General Motors and Bright Automotive announced a new partnership, reports the Herald Bulletin. The alliance between the Anderson, Indiana-based manufacturer and one of America’s big three auto makers could create as many as 6,000 new jobs, although where and when those jobs are to appear is still uncertain. Hoosiers are hoping the jobs stay [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Bloomberg Businessweek: JPMorgan & Chase has plans to open 10 new Chase branches throughout the northern Atlanta metropolitan area by the end of 2010, with another 35 coming by the end of 2012. Construction is already under way on eight of the initial ten and the company predicts adding some 350 jobs over the course [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 26, 2010
Webster City, located in the heart of Iowa, will be soon be quietly rolling out electric cars, as many as 2,500 of them a week, reports The Des Moines Register. Ames-based Envision Motor Company has plans to open a new facility in Webster, creating some 300 jobs. This is welcome news for a town that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 26, 2010
The GovMonitor has received news from Maine Governor John E. Baldacci that Kestral Aircraft Company will invest $100 million locally in its plans to locate to Brunswick Landing, the site of former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Kestral will design and manufacture composite turboprop planes in Hangar #6 at the site, ramping up operations in 2011 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 22, 2010
MLive: With the debut of its 2011 Explorer coming Monday, Ford Motor Company has announced that mass production of the sport utility vehicle will create some 1,200 jobs at its Chicago assembly plant and an additional 600 for parts builders and suppliers in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. One auto expert cited at PR Newswire, says [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 21, 2010
AreaDevelopment Online: New Bern, North Carolina’s Hatteras Yachts has plans to invest some $4.7 million in growth while creating 350 jobs in the next five years. To do so, parent company Brunswick Corporation will move its recent West coast acquisition, Cabo Yachts, east, installing it with Hatteras under the same roof where both companies will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 19, 2010
Bloomberg: The nation’s largest land-based oil driller, Halliburton, added 1,700 jobs in the last three months. The boom is the direct result of production shut down in the gulf. The company added an additional 1,200 jobs in the first three months of the year. According to the piece, Halliburton’s active onshore rig numbers in the [...]
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