After entering the U.S. market through an acquisition of a leading provider of refrigeration products, Italy-based Epta is recommitting to Columbus, Ga. Kysor Warren Epta U.S. will spent $27 million on an expansion that will create 200 manufacturing jobs and anchor the company’s North American headquarters in the West Georgia city. Damon Wyatt, vice president and […]
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India Summit and Global Business Forum to Address Digital Transformation
Editor’s note: This is a sponsored post contributed by the USA India Business Summit and Georgia Tech CIBER. “Hyper-digitalization” accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic will frame the ambitious agenda of the 11th USA India Business Summit and 26th Georgia Tech Global Business Forum focusing on the Southeast’s advanced technology sector. Being held virtually for the first time […]
Energy Drink Exporter to Set Up Douglas County Factory, Hiring 600
Bang Energy, which sells its sports and energy beverages across all 50 U.S. states and in 37 countries, will invest $145 million to set up a factory in Douglas County. The Florida-based firm is set to hire 600 at the facility located at 7705 Staples Drive in Lithia Springs, which will have the capacity to produce 4,000 […]
SK Battery Installs Immigration Checks Amid Criticism of Hiring Practices at Korean-Owned Plant
SK Innovation is taking new steps to ensure immigration compliance at its $2.6 billion project in Jackson County amid growing evidence that foreign workers are displacing Americans during the construction process. The Korean electric-vehicle battery maker instituted daily document checks Thursday, a week after Rep. Doug Collins, a Republican whose district encompasses the plant, first asked Immigration and Customs […]
Faced With Tariffs, Korean Mattress Manufacturer to Invest $108M in Georgia, Hire 804
Korea-based Zinus USA Inc., a furniture and mattress manufacturer, is investing $108 million in a new Henry County factory that will employ 804 people. Gov. Brian Kemp, who traveled to Korea in 2019 to drum up business from a nation rapidly becoming one of Georgia’s biggest foreign investors, announced the deal with company executives in […]
Marietta to Mumbai: Birla Carbon’s Global Restructuring to More Closely Link Two Main Offices
India’s Birla Carbon is reshaping its global corporate structure amid the pandemic, a move that carries unknown consequences for a regional headquarters in metro Atlanta. Birla Carbon declined to give an official headcount of its Marietta office, which it gained nearly a decade ago through the acquisition of Columbian Chemicals for $875 million. On LinkedIn, 150 people […]
U.K.’s JCB Wins $269M Military Contract for Made-in-Savannah Excavators
U.K.-based construction equipment manufacturer JCB’s North American operation in Savannah has won a contract worth more than a quarter-billion dollars to supply nimble excavators for the U.S. military. It calls for the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps to spend up to $269 million over the next eight years to procure up to 400 of what the company […]
Survey: Japanese-Owned Factories Back Up and Running, With Smaller Teams
Japanese-owned factories are back up and running across the nation, but most are operating with reduced staff as they wait for the appropriate time to bring back their full teams. In its fourth “short survey” since the pandemic began, the Japan External Trade Organization found that the majority of Japanese subsidiaries — in manufacturing and […]
Colombian Ambassador: Nearshoring, Trade Collaboration Could ‘Make the Americas Great Again’
As U.S. firms rethink their global supply chains in the wake of COVID-19, using Colombia as a production base could be part of an effort to “make the Americas great again,” the country’s ambassador told Global Atlanta. Francisco Santos Calderón said the world has gone from a “just-in-time economy to a just-in-case economy,” forcing multinationals […]
Quebec Firm Grows Medical Mask Factory in Georgia Even as It Expands Globally
A medical mask manufacturer continues to ramp up in Georgia to serve the North American market, despite its Canadian owner’s plans to build a large factory at home and diversify worldwide. Medicom Group said the new factory near its home base in Montreal would not syphon off demand from its United Medical Enterprises plant in Augusta, […]
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