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State Financing Helps Canadian Company Choose Vermont For Expansion [ 4/6/2009 ]By: News Brief
ST. ALBANS, Vt. (April 6) — Vermont Transformer Inc. (VTI), an offshoot of a Canadian company, will establish and operate a dry-type electrical transformer manufacturing plant here.Read The Full Article
Finland’s Moventas To Operate Wind Turbine Manufacturing Facility in Minnesota [ 4/6/2009 ]By: News Brief
FARIBAULT, Minn. (April 6) — Moventas, a supplier of wind-turbine and industrial gears, is investing in manufacturing facilities here and in Finland.Read The Full Article
German Company To Expand Global Presence with Facility in Georgia [ 4/6/2009 ]By: News Brief
HARTWELL, Ga. (April 6) — RITZ Instrument Transformers plans to open a new manufacturing facility here, creating 50 jobs and investing $3 million.
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G&G Steel To Locate Metal Fab Facility in Mississippi [ 4/6/2009 ]By: News Brief
IUKA, Miss. (April 6) — G & G Steel will locate a metal fabrication facility here at the Tri-State Commerce Park. The company will initially hire at least 25 workers for the site.Read The Full Article
Piedmont Aviation Expands Operations in North Carolina [ 4/6/2009 ]By: News Brief
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (April 6) — Piedmont Aviation Component Services LLC plans to expand its operations here with an investment of $5.8 million and the creation of 120 jobs by relocating sister company Limco to North Carolina.Read The Full Article
Sallie Mae To Bring Jobs Back to U.S. From Overseas [ 4/6/2009 ]By: News Brief
RESTON, Va. (April 6) — Sallie Mae will create 2,000 jobs by returning its overseas operations to the United States by the end of 2010.Read The Full Article
HEMLOCK, Mich. (April 2) — Hemlock Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Dow Corning, will launch a major expansion of its polycrystalline silicon manufacturing operations in Michigan and Tennessee.Read The Full Article
Solar Manufacturing Leases Building For Expansion in Pennsylvania [ 4/2/2009 ]By: News Brief
SOUDERTON, Pa. (April 2) — Solar Manufacturing Inc. has secured lease on a building near its corporate headquarters here to support the manufacturing of new extraordinarily large vacuum furnaces.Read The Full Article
More Plant Closures Likely in GM’s Future [ 4/2/2009 ]By: News Brief
DETROIT (April 2) — General Motors Corp.’s new CEO said that more of the automaker's plants could close as part of the struggling automaker’s effort to meet new, tougher requirements for government aid.Read The Full Article
Rand Corp. Opens New Office in Massachusetts [ 4/2/2009 ]By: News Brief
BOSTON (April 2) — The Rand Corp. has opened an office here as part of a strategic effort to expand and strengthen its portfolio of health-related work and to foster collaborative opportunities with scientists affiliated with universities, private research groups and government in Eastern Massachusetts.Read The Full Article
German Robotics Company Opens U.S. Office in Wyoming [ 3/31/2009 ]By: News Brief
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (March 31) — Germany-based Vulkan Technic GmbH has signed agreements with Cheyenne LEADS to officially initiate the company’s presence here.Read The Full Article
UnitedHealth Group To Relocate Within Hartford, Connecticut [ 3/31/2009 ]By: News Brief
HARTFORD, Conn. (March 31) — UnitedHealth Group will keep its 2,000-plus work force here, signing a lease agreement to move its offices to a new location in the city.Read The Full Article
Company to Build Bleach Plant at Dow Site in California [ 3/31/2009 ]By: News Brief
PITTSBURG, Calif. (March 31) — The Dow Chemical Co. and K2 Pure Solutions have announced an agreement for K2 to build and operate a bleach plant at Dow’s site here.Read The Full Article
MILWAUKEE (March 31) — Automotive supplier Johnson Controls Inc. will close 10 manufacturing plants and reduce its work force as part of a restructuring effort that it said will cost between $200 million and $215 million.Read The Full Article
Mercedes-Benz To Expand Alabama Plant [ 3/26/2009 ]By: News Brief
VANCE, Ala. (March 26) — Bucking the industry trend, Mercedes-Benz will spend $290 million here during the next two to three years in an expansion project of its assembly plant.Read The Full Article
Oberthur Technologies To Transfer Card Manufacturing to Pennsylvania Facility [ 3/26/2009 ]By: News Brief
EXTON, Pa. (March 26) — Oberthur Technologies announced it will relocate its card manufacturing operation from California to an expanded facility here, which will boast a 20 percent increase in overall production capabilities.Read The Full Article
FlightSafety International Expands Operations in Texas [ 3/26/2009 ]By: News Brief
DALLAS (March 26) — FlightSafety International will double the size of its facility here at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to accommodate added pilot training.Read The Full Article
Tech Company Gets Funding from New Jersey Program [ 3/26/2009 ]
PRINCETON, N.J. (March 26) — The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) has finalized a $200,000 Edison Innovation Fund investment to assist in the growth of SterraClimb LLC, a company that has invented and prototyped the world’s first portable, motorized stair-climbing hand truck.Read The Full Article
Balqon Begins Production of Heavy-Duty Electric Truck at New California Plant [ 3/24/2009 ]By: News Brief
HARBOR CITY, Calif. (March 24) — Balqon Corp. has launched operations from its new production facility located here in the Los Angeles metro, where it is producing a new type of vehicle.Read The Full Article
SAS To Build Cloud Computing Facility in North Carolina [ 3/24/2009 ]By: News Brief
CARY, N.C. (March 24) — SAS will build a 38,000-square-foot cloud computing facility here to provide the additional data-handling capacity needed to expand SAS’ OnDemand offerings and hosted solutions.Read The Full Article
MWV to Close Facilities in Virginia, Puerto Rico [ 3/24/2009 ]By: News Brief
RICHMOND, Va. (March 24) — MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV) announced it will close its Louisa, Va., and Caguas, Puerto Rico, folding carton plants in 2009.Read The Full Article
Partnership To Open New Data Storage Facility in Iowa [ 3/24/2009 ]By: News Brief
WAUKEE, Iowa (March 24) — TEAM Companies, an Iowa data center company, and Iowa Health System, the state’s largest integrated health system, have broken ground on a new data center here.
GREGORY, Texas (March 24)— China-based Tianjin Pipe Group Corp. (TPCO) plans to build a billion-dollar seamless pipe mill here in the Coastal Bend region of Texas with annual capacity of 550,000 tons.Read The Full Article
CARMEL, Ind. (March 19) — Technology developer and supplier Telamon Corp. will expand its international headquarters here, creating nearly 250 jobs by 2012.Read The Full Article
Scripps Launches Research in New Florida Complex [ 3/19/2009 ]By: News Brief
JUPITER, Fla. (March 19) — The Scripps Research Institute has opened Scripps Florida here, the institute’s 350,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art biomedical research facility.Read The Full Article
