Port Angles for Auto Traffic
After downturns in coal, Alabama’s port bids for autos — landing a $60 million facility planned by two Latin American partners.
Partners Ratify $300M Air Assembly Line
Top brass from two international aircraft companies flew in to Mobile in February to affirm a big deal for Alabama.
New Plane, New Jobs Planned for Mobile
Top brass from Airbus Americas and Bombardier Inc. flew into Mobile today to introduce the Bombardier C-Series aircraft and talk about the...
Signature Victory: Alabama Wins $1.6B Toyota-Mazda Plant
The plant should begin operations by 2021 and have an estimated annual production capacity of approximately 300,000 units.
Speeding into the Future
October’s Southern Automotive Conference began with the sound of a revving engine and squealing tires reverberating over the loudspeakers at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex...
Aerospace Evolution, Cradle to Orbit
At B.C. Rain High School in Mobile, the graduation rate five years ago was 42 percent. This year the graduation rate was 92...
Autos Highly Pumped
It’s been quite a ride for the automotive industry, but a years-long run of record production, sales and employment growth is about...
Countless Jobs, Few Takers
On the one hand, the seemingly bottomless pit of vacancies for truck driving jobs is hard to fathom in Alabama, where the...
Hyundai’s Power Play
This is the Hyundai plant in Alabama that doesn’t make cars. It’s Hyundai Power Transformers USA and, as the name suggests, ...
Soaring on a Southern Wind
Airbus jet components are created in plants across Europe, make their way by ocean liner to Mobile and are assembled by skilled workers...