A major steel project in Coastal Texas, a massive energy project in western Kansas and upgrades to two Indiana seed production plants top the week’s job creation and site selection announcements.

Categories: Deals, Job Creation
Tagged: Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Port Corpus Christi, Tennessee, Texas manufacturing,

Plastics, furniture and automotive top the week’s expansion news, with investment and job creation announcements from Dow Chemical, Ashley Home Furniture and JTEKT.

Categories: Deals, Job Creation, Site Selection
Tagged: Ashley Home Furnishings, Dow Chemical, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina auto manufacturing, Texas manufacturing,

Investment and job creation announcements for Spirit AeroSystems in Kansas, suppliers to Caterpillar in Seguin TX and a major distribution center for kids clothier Carter’s Inc. tops the week’s site selection news.

Categories: Deals, Job Creation, Site Selection
Tagged: Carter's Inc., Caterpillar, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas aviation industry, Kentucky, Mitas North America, Serco, Spirit Aerosystems, Texas manufacturing,

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that from June 2009 through June 2011 Texas added 262,000 jobs, or half the nation’s 524,000 payroll gains.

Categories: Job Creation
Tagged: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas economy, Texas jobs, Texas manufacturing,

CK Technologies, a major supplier to the commercial truck and bus market, is building a manufacturing facility for interior, exterior, and functional (under-the-hood) assemblies in Brownsville, Texas. The new facility involves a capital investment in excess of $20 million and is expected to create 121 jobs during 2011.

Categories: Site Selection
Tagged: Brownsville, Cascade Engineering, CK Technologies, CK Technologies and Brownsville, Texas economy, Texas manufacturing, TX,

Cymbet Corp. and X-FAB Texas Inc. are collaborating on what is being billed as the world’s highest volume solid-state battery production facility at a site in Lubbock.

Categories: Deals, Site Selection
Tagged: Cymbet, Lubbock, Texas economy, Texas manufacturing, X-FAB,

Klein Tools is ready to invest $76 million for a new location in the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center in Mansfield, TX, about 30 miles southeast of Fort Worth, creating 585 jobs.

Categories: Deals, Site Selection
Tagged: Klein Tools, Mansfield, Texas economy, Texas Enterprise Fund, Texas manufacturing, TX,