The May jobless rate in Indiana was unchanged from April, although the state added 7,700 private-sector jobs last month, with gains in sectors including trade, transportation, utilities, and private educational and health services.
NTN Driveshaft Inc. said it will add the jobs by 2013 as part of an $18 million expansion that will include purchasing additional equipment for its 1-million-square-foot facility.
Officials expect a plastic packaging manufacturer to start production this summer at a former central Indiana auto-parts factory that closed six years ago.
Republican Mike Pence outlined his agenda Saturday before the state Republican convention. He has six broad goals if he’s elected Indiana governor, but creating jobs tops the list.
Work could start this month on a new turkey processing plant in southwestern Indiana a company expects to open with about 350 workers.
A Fort Wayne-based retailer of music and sound equipment said Friday that it plans an expansion that would roughly double the size of its headquarters campus and create more than 300 jobs by 2016.
Subaru already employs 3,600 at its Lafayette facility, with 600 workers added in the past three years. The expansion will ramp up production from nearly 171,000 cars a year to at least 180,000.
Republican Mike Pence, Democrat John Gregg and Libertarian Rupert Boneham each say job creation would be “job one” if elected governor. But their means to reaching employment goals vary from dispatching missionary-style investment gurus, to growing more hemp and bamboo, to increasing wind-turbine manufacturing in the state.
A shorter-than-usual abatement plan during which no property taxes are paid for three years is expected to help Van’s Electrical Systems invest $427,000 to purchase and rehab a vacant building on the city’s west side.
Advanced Metal Technologies of Indiana Inc., an auto and industrial parts maker owned by the Alabama-based Whitesell Group, said it will locate its operations in Jeffersonville and add 350 jobs by 2015.
A Greenwood e-commerce company could collect $1 million in state tax credits and training grants if it succeeds in hiring 109 new employees over the next five years.
The Indianapolis-based retailer of athletic shoes and apparel said it will add the jobs by 2016 as part of a multimillion-dollar expansion that will upgrade its e-commerce systems.
Chicago-based Selected Furniture LLC is planning to move its operations to Indiana, the manufacturer said Tuesday, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2014.
A distribution company that specializes in handling food for retailers has outgrown its Plainfield space and plans to take up another 400,000 square feet in Greenwood. Prime Distribution estimates it would add 35 employees by 2016.
The Columbus-based manufacturer of diesel engines said it will add 290 jobs in Seymour as part of a major expansion that will include new warehouses, additional engineering, production and testing facilities, and a new office building.
ThyssenKrupp Presta Terre Haute LLC plans to spend $22 million to add three assembly lines and expand its manufacturing facility in Vigo County by nearly 70,000 square feet.
The Indianapolis-based manufacturer and distributor of personal care products plans to add the 144 jobs by 2016 as part of a $3.4 million expansion.
Bureau of Labor Statistics revises numbers, but region is still 30,000 jobs short of pre-recession peak.
Appliance maker Whirlpool Corp. has agreed to pay Indiana $800,000 after failing to maintain employment levels called for in an economic development incentives agreement.
enVista LLC, which provides enterprise and supply chain consulting services, plans to add nearly 100 workers by 2016 as part of a $1.2 million expansion at its Carmel headquarters on North Meridian Street.
