The companies employing this year’s Georgia “Faces of Manufacturing” may not sound exotic, but many hail from far beyond the U.S. The Georgia Tech Manufacturing Extension Partnership, which provides technical assistance […]
Category: Manufacturing
Award-Winning Georgia Manufacturers Tackle Skills Gap
When she started college, Skyler Huggett struggled to make a 9 a.m. class. But more recently, her studies (literally) lit a fire that had her prepared to get to work before the doors opened — […]
AGCO CEO’s Dream: Build a Georgia Tractor Factory
Duluth-based AGCO Corp. has tractor factories all over the world, from Europe to China and Mexico to Brazil, and many places in between. But it doesn’t have a manufacturing presence […]
Italy’s Luxottica to Hire 1,000, Add Manufacturing in Metro Atlanta
Italian eyewear maker Luxottica is planning to hire 1,000 new workers, mainly in production and warehousing, as it adds manufacturing to a longstanding wholesale warehouse in metro Atlanta. The publicly traded company […]
Yanmar to Provide 25 Administrative Jobs at a New Training Facility in Cherokee County
Osaka, Japan-based Yanmar Co., Ltd., a global company with its U.S. regional headquarters in Adairsville, Ga., is to open a new training and customer experience facility. According to a Nov. […]
French Chamber’s Crystal Peach Highlights ‘IoT’ and French Firms With Atlanta Operations
Allen Proithis, president of Sigfox North America, a global company headquartered outside of Atlanta‘s sister city, Toulouse, France, is so confident about its impact on the United States that he equates […]
Newnan Draws German Investment as Apprenticeship Takes Off
Apparently, Newnan was doing something right. A German company that had been renting a distribution center in the west Georgia community now plans to set up its U.S. headquarters there, […]
Foreign-Owned Factories Turn to Connectivity to Improve Efficiency
One makes contact lenses with layers thinner than a human hair. Another produces sensors that help cars avoid collisions. And one makes grown-up “toys” — golf cars, Waverunners and four wheelers. […]
Adidas’s Robot-Staffed Atlanta Factory Will Create 160 Human Jobs
Score one for the humans. While robots have been among the prime culprits in siphoning jobs from American workers in recent decades, a new factory from German sportswear giant Adidas […]
Dutch Manufacturer Uses Robotics, Race Car Materials for Aerospace Innovation
Editor’s note: When Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his counterpart, Geert Bourgeois, minister-president of the Flanders region of Belgium, visited Atlanta last year, aerospace wasn’t supposed to be on […]