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Old 12-01-2020, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Columbus, GA and Brookhaven, GA
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Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced that Hyundai TRANSYS, a world-renowned producer of automotive parts, will invest more than $240 million in expanding their operations in Georgia, creating 678 full-time long-term positions at a new manufacturing facility in the West Point area.

Hyundai TRANSYS is the only automobile manufacturing company in the world that specializes in transmissions. The brand-new 620,000-square-foot West Point plant near the company’s current location on the Kia campus will be responsible for producing eight-speed transmissions for a global automotive leader.
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Old 12-01-2020, 05:46 PM
 
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Is COLUMBUS doing ANYTHING to attract companies to locate here??
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Old 12-02-2020, 08:24 AM
 
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I am assuming that Columbus not having an interstate running through our area is still holding the city back. Until that is changed, I just can't see Columbus attracting these types of developments.
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Old 12-02-2020, 09:49 AM
 
Location: Columbus, GA
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Jeez guys, it wasn't two months ago when the Kysor Warren headquarters and manufacturing facility was announced, stop the doom and gloom.

Sounds like Kia is putting this right next to the existing facility and from there it's an easy drive down 85 to get to the Hyundai Montgomery location. It makes sense to put it in Troup County.
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Old 12-02-2020, 10:33 AM
 
Location: Dayton OH
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About 20 years ago, I worked in West Point and lived near Auburn, AL. At that time, West Point was really struggling, a few textile mills were still running, but there were a lot of empty storefronts. Next door in Lanett, AL was pretty tough also.

West Point's advantage has been location. Not only I-85 passes right by, but so does the CSX main rail line from Atlanta to the port of Mobile. In the auto manufacturing business, rail transport with good port connections is a big deal. Because WP is next to that main rail line, it has the added benefit of good, direct (fewer "hops") connections to the nationwide fiber optic telecommunications networks of many of the biggest long haul telecom providers. Most of the big long haul fiber networks are built along the main railroad rights of way, so WP gets double benefit from that.

Advantage #3 is having a hydroelectric power plant (West Point Dam) less than two miles from the existing Kia factory, and probably not much further from where ever the new transmission factory will be. Big factories consume a lot of power, and reliability of power supply is a plus. The big coal fired power plant on the Chattahoochee is about 25 miles north.

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