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Old 11-14-2007, 09:39 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Two steps back, three steps forward it seems :

Lear to close its last GR area plant

Roskam Baking Co. to invest $15 Million, create 175 jobs
Kellogg Co. doubles projected investment and job growth at GR plant
American Seating plans $8 Million expansion, creating 20 - 50 jobs
Solar power plant opens next month in Greenville
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Old 11-14-2007, 02:12 PM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Rapid Growth - Holland manufacturer goes 'off the grid' with new $10M facility

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In just a few months Coastal Container will no longer be dependent on fossil fuels to heat, humidify, and provide electricity for its 235,000-square-foot corrugated container manufacturing facility. That's because Brent Patterson, CEO, plans to fire up the 600 hp boiler/steam heat system using recycled wood and add an electrical turbine to create the plant's electricity...

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...The plant employs 20 and is on 10 acres, plenty of space to expand to up to 400,000 as the business grows. Patterson expects to add some 50 employees by the end of 2008.
Wow, now that is pretty cool!
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Old 01-17-2008, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Sheesh! Attn healthcare workers!

Growth at Spectrum Health spurs 500 clinical healthcare positions by year's end

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By the end of 2008, Spectrum Health expects to create and fill 500 full-time-equivalent clinical healthcare positions. While most of those jobs will be system-wide, Spectrum has earmarked some for its state-of-the-art Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion, slated to open on June 30.

..."Any trained clinical personnel have the luxury today of being quite mobile because of their skill set and the demand for their skills across the country," Oglesby says. "Just the other day I met one of our surgery technicians who came here from Atlanta for a job. Still others are moving here from the Detroit area."

In 2007, Spectrum filled 1,941 full-time-equivalent jobs. While many of those were existing positions, Spectrum's full-time-equivalent job count grew by 460, of which 304 were Registered Nurses.
So Spectrum Health grew by 460 positions in 2007 and will grow another 500 in 2008. Yikes! That doesn't even include Spectrum's new $274 Million Children's Hospital under construction set to open in 2010, and Van Andel Institute quadrupling its size right now and also adding 400 new researchers and 150 support staff in late 2009.
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Old 01-18-2008, 08:27 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Kalamazoo firm wins $1B in aircraft contract - Latest News - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

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KALAMAZOO -- The Parker Hydraulics Division in Kalamazoo has landed a $1 billion share of a new contract to build control systems for international aircraft maker Airbus.

Parker has been tapped to design and produce the hydraulic power generation and distribution system for Airbus' new A350 extra-widebody aircraft, being called the XWB.

The work is part of a $2 billion contract inked by Irvine, Calif.-based Parker Aerospace. It announced late Thursday it has been chosen by Airbus to supply the fuel and hydraulic systems for the XWB. Parker's Air & Fuel Division in Irvine is to provide a fuel tank inerting system for the Airbus project.

What will the new work mean for Parker's 2220 Palmer St. operation?

"It definitely means that there will be more engineering people and probably more manufacturing people required to support it," said Rod Taft, program manager for the Parker Hydraulics Division in Kalamazoo.
Let's hope these wins here and there keep coming in 2008. As I mentioned in another thread, it's not the BIG company relocations that will save Michigan, it will be hundreds and thousands of small successes and expansions.
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