Articles Tagged with ''Indiana manufacturing''

COLUMBUS, IN—Toyota Material Handling and the Lean Factory Group will host a three-day workshop on the subject of lean material management Sept. 17-19.

INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana has become the second-biggest state in terms of automotive gross domestic product, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

WASHINGTON—Indiana added 4,300 manufacturing jobs in June, the most of any state. Rounding out the top five states for creating manufacturing jobs are California, Georgia, Wisconsin and Texas.

PRINCETON, IN—Toyota will invest $30 million and add 200 jobs to increase production at its assembly plant here.

ROANOKE, IN—GM has added more than 400 hourly and salaried workers at its assembly plant here to help with production of the company’s revamped full-size trucks.

GREENBURG, IN—Delta Faucet Co. will invest $12 million to expand its assembly plant here, creating up to 160 new jobs by 2014.

FRANKLIN, IN—Automotive bearing manufacturer NSK Precision America will invest $30.2 million to expand manufacturing operations here.

Manufacturing has always been important to Northeast Indiana. “We had always been first in and last out of a recession," says John Sampson, president and COO of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership. "But this time we were first in and first out.”

INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana gained 8,020 manufacturing jobs from April 2012 to April 2013, an increase of 1.4 percent. It’s the second year in a row that industrial employment in Indiana posted a gain.

FORT WAYNE, IN—Brunswick Corp. has opened a new assembly plant here to make high-end pontoon boats and expects to add 200 jobs to its workforce by 2016.