GE plans shutdown of last Fort Wayne facilities
GE says it plans to shut down the last of its Fort Wayne facilities after more than a century in the city. The company once had almost 10,000 workers at the 13-building campus.
GE says it plans to shut down the last of its Fort Wayne facilities after more than a century in the city. The company once had almost 10,000 workers at the 13-building campus.
Toyota built 1.86 million cars and light trucks at U.S., Canadian and Mexican plants in 2013, while Tokyo-based Honda made 1.78 million autos in North America.
The plant, located at 620 S. Belmont Ave., southwest of downtown, has been making paperboard packaging since the early 1970s.
The Evansville-based manufacturing giant intends to consolidate some operations from out of state into existing Indiana facilities.
Sales dropped 4 percent in Europe, the company’s biggest market, to $32.3 million. North America sales fell 6 percent, to $16.7 million.
Cummins Inc., the Indiana-based maker of truck engines, has sued three named and 10 unnamed defendants for trademark infringement. The company claims the defendants are making and selling T-shirts bearing its trademarks without permission.
An Indiana plant will get $29.2 million to make parts for 10-speed transmissions and for six-speed transmission components. The Bedford facility has about 600 workers.
Indiana is among 15 states competing for a $10 billion Boeing airplane manufacturing and assembly facility that could employ up to 8,500 workers by 2024.
The facility in Columbus would be the first of its kind for the company. Should the concept prove successful, Cummins will consider similar arrangements in other areas with Cummins plants, said Dr. Dexter Shurney, chief medical officer for Cummins.
The maker of Stride Rite, Sperry Top-Sider, Hush Puppies and Keds footwear plans to expand operations in Richmond, creating 184 jobs by 2017 and retaining 130 workers in the city about 65 miles east of Indianapolis.
Bel-Ray Co. deal brings East Coast ports to Indianapolis-based Calumet.
Carmel has gained a publicly traded company large enough to knock retail legend J.C. Penney off the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
When America was making the transition from horse and buggies to the horseless carriage at the start of the 20th century, the city of Anderson was a part of the innovation that changed how the nation would travel forever.
Sugar Creek Packing Co. officials say the delay is needed because of changes in construction plans for a sewage-treatment plant at the former Really Cool Foods plant near Cambridge City.
Toyota Motor Corp.’s top North American executive said the carmaker hasn’t decided to end a production deal that supplies it with 100,000 Camry sedans annually from Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.’s U.S. Subaru plant in Lafayette.
Manufacturing output rose 0.3 percent last month, up from 0.1 percent in September, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. Overall industrial production, however, fell 0.1 percent.
Founded in 1987, Indy-based Motionwear LLC currently employs more than 180 full-time workers and already has begun hiring new manufacturing, administrative, sales and warehouse employees.
Apparel maker Sport-Haley Holdings Inc. has closed its $3.45 million purchase of Indiana-based furniture maker Chromcraft Revington.
PolyOne’s Designed Structures and Solutions division in Warsaw will begin terminating employees Jan. 6, the company said in a filing received Thursday by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
Dallas-based Specialty Bakery LLC plans to build a 226,778-square-foot production and distribution facility in southwest Indianapolis that would create 241 jobs by 2018.