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Alabama energy providers assist with aerospace industry meetings
One of the unique components Alabama brought to its recruiting efforts at the Paris Air Show was attendance from energy provider representatives. Energy supply and cost is always a critical consideration when a company decides on a location for their business or expansion, and representatives from Alabama Power, PowerSouth Energy Cooperative and North Alabama Industrial…
Curse Inc., online game portal, moves headquarters to Huntsville from California
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Curse Inc., an operator of an online game portal that was named one of Inc. magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies in 2011, announced plans to locate its corporate headquarters and content team in Huntsville and bring 20 new jobs to the area. The company provides editorials, videos, wikis, databases, forums, add-ons, blogs,…
Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Alabama network substantially complete after major investment
MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Verizon Wireless announced today that the company’s 4G LTE network is now substantially complete in Alabama just two years after first launching in Montgomery and Mobile. Verizon’s 4G LTE network now represents the vast majority of the company’s 3G footprint that provides coverage across tens of thousands of square miles in Alabama, from…
DAS North America project means 300 new jobs in Montgomery
MONTGOMERY, Alabama – DAS North America’s turning of the dirt here today was more than a groundbreaking ceremony for the company’s new 300,000-square-foot facility. Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange said the project is a testament to the growing automotive industry in Alabama, which may soon be ranked fourth in the nation for annual production of automobiles. Governor…
Toyota investing $150 million on Alabama engine plant upgrades
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. said today it is investing $150 million to boost machining capacity and the production of V-6 engine parts at its Alabama engine plant. “Toyota Alabama continues to play a key role in our efforts to build engines in the region for our loyal customers,”…
Alabamians work to land orders for micro propulsion system at Paris Air Show
PARIS, France — Alabamians Brad Caban, president of Aero-mark aerospace manufacturing and maintenance, and Brent Trotter, chief engineer at the company’s Fairhope division called Amro, arrived at the Charles de Gaulle Airport Sunday with their Paris Air Show display in tow. It fit into a small black box about the size of bowling ball. Caban…
NASA, Alabama aerospace hub developing SLS, most powerful rocket for space
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Airbus’ passenger jet production center will launch Alabama into the commercial jet manufacturing business in 2015. But an Alabama aerospace hub has long played a critical role in a different kind of flight – space travel. More than four decades after going to the moon with the Alabama-designed Saturn V rocket, NASA is…
Boeing Alabama operations take aim at missile threats, help develop Mars rocket
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Boeing Co.’s commercial jet business has racked up billion-dollar orders at the Paris Air Show this week. The company’s Alabama operations are concentrating on different tasks – making a rocket powerful enough to get man to Mars and defending against enemy missile threats. A lot has changed in the 51 years since…
Airbus announces orders for A320 family, shows off new innovations in Paris
PARIS, France — Governor Robert Bentley as well as representatives from Mobile and Baldwin Counties and the Mobile Airport Authority all held meetings with various executives at Airbus this week at the Paris Air Show. Those meetings were largely focused on ongoing plans for the Airbus final assembly line at Mobile Brookley Aeroplex, which will produce…
Alabama’s successes so far this year at the Paris Air Show
As lunchtime approaches in the U.S., business is beginning to wrap up on the third day the 2013 Paris Air Show. With dozens of meetings complete, Alabama Secretary of Commerce Greg Canfield highlighted three major successes for Alabama at this year’s international aerospace trade event. 1. Progress with Airbus suppliers “Over the past three days…