Auto supplier Yorozu plans $100 million Alabama plant with 300 jobs
Made In Alabama News Center
October 13, 2015
JASPER, Alabama – Yokohama, Japan-based Yorozu Corp., a global Tier 1 automotive supplier, plans to invest more than $100 million to build a new state-of-the-art metal stamping facility in Alabama, creating 300 jobs in Jasper and adding momentum to the state’s growing auto manufacturing sector.
The Yorozu Automotive Alabama Inc. (YAA) facility will be located on a 50-acre site in the Jasper Industrial Park that had been certified under Alabama’s “AdvantageSite” program. YAA, which will operate as a subsidiary of Tennessee-based Yorozu America Corp., will supply several auto assembly plants with suspensions and other components.
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UAH building $2 million wind tunnel
Author: Jim Steele/UAH
October 14, 2015
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will soon be home to a new $2 million wind tunnel system championed by the university’s eminent scholar in propulsion, Phillip Ligrani.
Ligrani’s TranSonic/SuperSonic/WindTunnel, or TS/SS/WT, is under construction in the Air Breathing Test Cell at UAH’s Johnson Research Center. The facility’s test sections will be capable of reaching speeds and air velocities ranging from Mach 1.6 with an airspeed of approximately 1,230 miles per hour to Mach 3 with an airspeed of about 2,300 mph.
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Airbus likely to increase production in Mobile, Alabama plant: mayor
The Business Times
OCT 14, 20157:24 AM
[NEW YORK] Airbus Group SA is likely to increase aircraft output at its Mobile, Alabama, factory beyond its current four-a-month target, the mayor of the Southern US city said on Tuesday.
Airbus has said it could produce up to eight single-aisle jetliners a month at the plant, which opened last month, an increase that would help Airbus work through its large backlog of orders, Mayor Sandy Stimpson said in an interview.
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