Mazda Toyota Manufacturing announces important leadership change for North Alabama

MADISON, AL — Mazda Toyota Manufacturing (MTM) will say good-bye next month to a founding member of its Leadership Steering Committee, Senior Vice President Janette Hostettler. Hostettler served as Vice President of Manufacturing since MTM’s start in 2018, before being promoted to SVP in 2022.  Hostettler started her career with Toyota in 2000 at Toyota […]

TIMES ALMOST UP! Best of Huntsville nominations open for one more week

After a very exciting month, the nomination period for the Best of Huntsville is coming to a close. Huntsville has consistently been ranked high in national awards over the past year, and Event Magazine and the Huntsville Business Journal have partnered to extend the opportunity to our readers to tell us which businesses have helped shape our […]

Adtran expands, adds 300 jobs with a $5M investment

During a press event last week, Adtran announced the successful expansion of their advanced telecommunications equipment manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The expansion will help meet the growing demand for domestically produced network electronics, spurred by the Biden-Harris Administration’s $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program and its Made-in-America policies in the Bipartisan […]

North Huntsville’s Freedom Industrial Park is officially on the way

Ground has been officially broken and the first building is on the way for Freedom’s Real Estate and Capital’s Freedom Industrial Park located across from Toyota Manufacturing on Pulaski Pike. According to Freedom Real Estate CEO Bill Roark, the new Industrial Park will be a massive undertaking for the company. The first of five scheduled […]

Kömmerling USA Announces Expansion in Huntsville, Adds Additional Jobs

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Kömmerling USA, located in Chase Industrial Park in Huntsville, has announced an expansion and additional jobs for the local facility.  Kömmerling’s Huntsville plant will add two new production lines to manufacture window and door profiles. The company currently makes these products elsewhere, including Germany, and this expansion will allow the team to make […]

GE Appliances Highlights $1.1 Billion in Economic Impact in 2022 Report

 GE Appliances, a Haier company, issued its 2022 Economic Impact highlighting the $24.5 billion contribution made by the company’s economic activities to the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). The effect on GDP was made possible by cumulative impact of more than $2 billion in investments and the hiring of 4,000 new employees at the company’s operations […]

Aerobotix Receives Outstanding Sales Growth Award from global robotics leader FANUC

Aerobotix, an AS9100-certified FANUC robotics integrator for the aerospace and defense industries, announces today that it recently received a special sales award from FANUC America, the global leader in CNCs, robotics and ROBOMACHINEs. Aerobotix was recognized with a 2022 Outstanding Sales Growth Award, which FANUC presents to an Authorized System Integrator whose calendar-year unit bookings increased […]

Huntsville’s Aerobotix to exhibit new Active Taping Kit tool at Automate 2023

Aerobotix and FerRobotics, two leading robotics companies based in the U.S. and Austria respectively, today announced they will exhibit their new Active Taping Kit (ATK) tool at Automate 2023 in Detroit, Michigan, from May 22-25. This will be the first public demonstration of the ATK in North America. Aerobotix and FerRobotics partnered on the ATK in response to aerospace industry demand for […]

Polaris’ Alabama Plant Ships First All-Electric Off-Road Vehicles

HUNTSVILLE, AL — Polaris Inc. announced a milestone for its Alabama manufacturing facility — the first fully electric RANGER XP Kinetic off-road vehicles are headed out of the Huntsville factory to dealerships for customer pickup. Production of the electric vehicles began earlier this month at the 900,000-square-foot facility, according to Polaris, the Minneapolis-based producer of […]

Huntsville Toyota and Huntsville Utilities go green in $49 million solar project

In a bid to support local, sustainable energy, Huntsville Utilities will be acquire power from someone besides TVA for the first time ever  On Wednesday morning, Huntsville Utilities, Toyota Alabama and Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. (TAI) announced a new project that will harness solar energy to power 70% of Huntsville’s Toyota manufacturing plant. The three […]