MOBILE -- Gov. Robert Bentley recently announced a $5 million project agreement between the state and Austal USA that will help the shipbuilder add up to 1,000 full-time jobs in Mobile. The Phase...
Airbus announced plans last week to build a $600 million aircraft assembly plant in Mobile, giving the European company its American factory and south Alabama the promise of 1,000 jobs.
Last year, the value of state exports reached $17.9 billion, up more than 15 percent over 2010 and a record high, according to the Alabama Development Office.
BIRMINGHAM -- Alabama's annual auto production is expected to near 900,000 in the next few years, a mark that could push it into the top three auto-making states in the country.
A $500 million steel facility will be constructed in Limestone will create 241 jobs in its first phase with more to come, officials of Carpenter Technology Corp. have announced.
August was a whirlwind month of activity for Alabama's Mercedes Benz plant, with the rollout of the redesigned M-Class SUV, an announcement that the company will invest an additional $2 billion t...
The head of Mercedes-Benz flew into Tuscaloosa recently and gave Alabama an economic shot in the arm, announcing that the luxury automaker would invest $2 billion in its Vance auto plant during t...
Hyundai Motor Manufacturing of Alabama has announced plans for a $173 million expansion that will create 214 jobs at its Montgomery plant
LINCOLN -- Honda plans to invest $97 million and create 20 jobs at its Alabama auto factory in Lincoln, as the company prepares to add the Acura MDX luxury sport utility vehicle to its asse...
Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group, Inc. announced this week that it has selected Thomasville as the location for its first manufacturing facility in the United States. Golden Dragon Precise...
North American Lighting, Inc. met with Alabama officials in February to announce that the company will invest approximately $35 million and create 250 new jobs over the next three years with the ...
IAlabama's jobless rate dropped faster in 2010 than virtually all other states, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Construction has started on the new motorcycle factory that is projected to have an Alabama-made bike on the nation's highways later this year.
The intersection of Lakeshore Parkway and Alabama 150 has been ripe with promise for years, but a major economic development project could bring that potential to fruition
CALVERT - Alabama Gov. Bob Riley will join ThyssenKrupp Steel officials for the grand opening of the company's new steel making facility at Calvert in Mobile County. The official opening of the p...
AUBURN -- GE Aviation announced this week that it has selected Auburn as the site for an environmental coatings facility for advanced military jet engine components. The company said it picked Au...
Huntsville-based Dynetics will build a 226,500-square-foot facility at the company's campus in Cummings Research Park, and it plans to add about 350 jobs over the next three years.
ThyssenKrupp AG’s stainless unit at Calvert has started production. The company has using one of its three cold-rolling mills, as well as additional processing and finishing lines, the firm sai...
Although Hyundai Heavy Industries held the ceremonial groundbreaking for its new Montgomery manufacturing plant last week, workers have been preparing the construction site for more than a month....
Gov. Bob Riley announced that GE Aviation selected Alabama as the site of a coatings plant for military jet engines. The $45 million plant is projected to employ 300 to 400 workers, building comp...
Minnesota-based Viper Motorcycle Co. plans to move its headquarters and production facility to Alabama, creating 100 new jobs here.
HUNTSVILLE -- Raytheon's decision to build a missile plant on Redstone Arsenal is both recognition of the talent and resources in this area and harbinger of a major new economic base
MOBILE – Airbus Americas, the jetliner unit of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., will add 90 engineers to its office at the Brookley Field Industrial Complex. Like the current 150 ...
The Alabama Robotics Technology Park (RTP) located in north Alabama is steadily becoming a reality. This project is a collaboration between the State of Alabama, Alabama Industrial Development Tr...
Production at Alabama's three auto plants is up by more than two-thirds this year, as demand surges for state-built vehicles and employees work overtime to fill the orders. Through the first week...
A Canadian auto supplier has selected Fort Payne as the site of its first U.S. manufacturing facility and plans to bring hundreds of jobs to northeast Alabama. Plasman Corp, part of A.P. Plasman
A $1 million lab set to open in August will help Birmingham's historic steel business -- and possibly some new companies -- continue to keep pace with competitors because they can save money by o...
Korean auto supplier Pyongsan America Inc. is expanding its Auburn operations. The company has outgrown its facility in Auburn Technology Park North and plans to lease
Gov. Bob Riley unveiled the state’s updated strategy to create new jobs through exports during a ceremony this month
The Andalusia City Council has approved a memorandum of understanding with SaeHaeSung
A number of Alabama cities are expected to bounce back quickly from one of the worst
The U.S. Navy has awarded Mobile's Austal USA shipyard $204.2 million, the second installment on what
MONTGOMERY -- A Chinese-backed automaker that plans a massive hybrid car-building operation
TUSCALOOSA- Mercedes-Benz’ decision to move some of its C-Class automobile production to its Vance
Mercedes-Benz’ decision this week to move some of its C-Class automobile production to its Vance factory in 2014 will not only create 1,000 jobs, but it also helps secure the future of the auto...
The Ares I rocket managed at Marshall Space Flight Center has been named the Best Invention of 2009 by Time magazine.
BAY MINETTE -- The governors of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana launched The Aerospace Alliance on Monday in an effort to establish the Gulf Coast as a premier aerospace corridor.
1. EADS Opens Aircraft Maintenance Center in Mobile EADS North America formally opened a $6 million aircraft maintenance center earlier this month at Mobile Regional Airport. The 30,000-square-fo...
Gov. Bob Riley plans to arrive in Europe on Wednesday for an industrial trip that involves trying to land new jobs and meeting with companies that have already provided jobs in Alabama.
The Toyota truck and SUV engine plant in Huntsville will start producing four-cylinder engines for Camry sedans and the RAV4 compact SUVs in the summer of 2011, plant executives announced Friday....
Alabama in 2008 retained its spot as the nation's fifth-largest auto-producing state.
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MONTGOMERY – Site Selection magazine ranks Alabama’s business climate among the best in the nation in its annual survey of states. The magazine, which is read by more than 44,000 corporate ex...
LINCOLN - Like puzzle pieces and Lego blocks, the interlocking, interchangeable parts of Honda's global operations offer flexibility, and that trait is currently on display at the Japanese automa...
It costs less to do business in Montgomery than almost any other medium-size city in the country, according to a new study. Among cities with populations between 100,000 and 500,000, Montgomery h...
SHANGHAI, CHINA -- Governor Bob Riley, in China to promote exports of Alabama products, visited a prestigious Shanghai hotel where he saw one of those Alabama-made exports being used.
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and the state's chief information officer have been recognized as two of the country's top 25 individuals who improve government through technology by Government Techonolog...
WASHINGTON - Alabama’s partnership with Google Earth in creating Virtual Alabama, a three-dimensional visualization program that can be used by first responders, law enforcement and others, was...
The checklist was short, but specific: The state chosen for John Sayles' latest film had to have a decommissioned Army base, disused railroad tracks in the countryside and a Southern down-home fe...
The rapid expansion of the auto industry in Alabama has been nothing short of mind boggling.
Up and out are the only directions Bew White has known for several years.As president of outdoor furniture manufacturer Summer Classics, his business model for increasing revenue is to pay low re...
The sign outside the CEO of Molded Fiber Glass Companies in Opp sets the tone for the relationship of management and workers at the company.
The 1 millionth Alabama-built Mercedes-Benz rolled off the assembly line here in November.
Community leaders from South Alabama recently visited the cities of Decatur and Hartselle in North Alabama to gather ideas on economic development.
Almost every foreign auto factory that's opened since the '90s has sprouted below the Mason-Dixon Line.Two of the three auto plants under construction also are in the South. Plants typically esta...
Alabama keeps improving how it goes after new industries and businesses, according to a national magazine.