GE Transportation Expands Manufacturing in Grove City
$35 million investment will establish new remanufacturing facility
Will create up to 150 new jobs by early 2013
Additional $37 million in manufacturing upgrades to existing facility
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GE Transportation Expands Manufacturing in Grove City
$35 million investment will establish new remanufacturing facility
Will create up to 150 new jobs by early 2013
Additional $37 million in manufacturing upgrades to existing facility
Bloomberg Business Week wrote:General Electric Co. plans to spend $72 million to add a diesel-engine plant and upgrade another in Grove City, Pennsylvania, meeting demand for locomotives.Good news for Grove City! Read more at: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-1 ... lants.html
GE, the world’s largest maker of diesel locomotives, will lay out $35 million to build the new plant, according to a statement today. The factory will begin production by the end of 2012 and create 150 jobs by early 2013, the Fairfield, Connecticut-based company said. GE is also spending $37 million this year and next on the upgrade of a 40-year-old facility.
Demand for the remanufacture of engines is being driven by locomotive overhauls and the need to comply with more-stringent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emission standards for diesel engines that take effect in 2013, GE said.
GoErie.com wrote:Nothing lasts forever. That includes the hefty 12-cylinder diesel engine that powers GE Transportation's Evolution locomotives.Read more at: http://www.goerie.com/article/20120205/ ... -future%3F
The 4,400-hp engine, designed to last more than 20 years, is also designed to go back to the factory every seven years for an extensive overhaul.
That's part of the reason GE Transportation recently announced plans to invest $72 million in two Grove City engine plants.
Until recently, the task of rebuilding the company's fastest-selling engine, introduced in 2005, has been a manageable one, performed in the same Grove City factory where the new ones are built.
But with the first of the Evolution engines nearing the seven-year mark, that's about to change, prompting the company to announce recently that it will expand and add 150 workers.
RickRackstop wrote:The railroads are the original do-it-yourselfers and they won't be too happy about this...What's to not be happy about? They had to have known about it when they signed on the dotted line to order the locomotives. You don't spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new equipment without knowing stuff like that ahead of time. It's not as if GE is just springing this news on the railroads all of a sudden.