Alabama State Port: Port as State Economic Plan
The $600 million Airbus final assembly line in Mobile will move its first fuselage units through the Alabama State Port in the spring of...
World’s Largest Rocket: The U.S. is Returning to Deep Space
Huntsville-born Virginia Barnes is head of the team that is building the world’s largest rocket, one expected to launch astronauts to Mars in about...
Carpenter Technology: New Star in Alabama Aerospace Cluster
Outside of the aeronautics, do you know what the Wright Brothers, the Spirit of St. Louis and every U.S. Space program project have in...
Construction and Building Planes
The massive hangar now under construction at Mobile’s Brookley Aeroplex – like the mythical phoenix – is rising from ashes of dreams.
Seven years ago,...
Triple Shift into Record Production
It is 3 p.m. at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA) in Montgomery and Ashley Frye, vice president of the production division, has just returned...
Engine Plant Climbs Toyota Mountain
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Huntsville is on course to become the largest Toyota engine plant in the world, aiming to produce 744, 000...
Automotive Success from Big Cities in Alabama to Small Towns
They make car seats, car doors, braking systems, headlights, gaskets and more. If it’s a component of a modern automobile, odds are somebody’s making...
Alabama Honda Mints a Lux SUV
Last December in tiny Lincoln, just off the Interstate 20 corridor in Talladega County, Honda workers celebrated the 3 millionth vehicle as it rolled...
Hornady on Talking Money and Hard Driving
Chris Hornady, president of Monroeville-based Hornady Transportation LLC, is one of those owners who says he thinks of his employees as family.
But it takes...
Full Throttle Innovation
Montgomery-based Knox Kershaw Inc. (KKI), a respected manufacturer of railroad track maintenance equipment, has a long history of innovation and deep roots in the...