GE Aviation to Open $56 Million Mississippi Plant, Add 250 Jobs
General Electric Co. (GE) said it will open a $56 million plant in Mississippi and hire 250 workers to make composite components for jet engines and aircraft systems.
GE Aviation, the world’s biggest engine maker, expected record production in the next 18 months even before logging $27 billion in orders with partners at last month’s Paris Air Show.
The company’s investment in the Ellisville plant follows the 2008 opening of a factory in Batesville that now employs 300, GE said in a statement today. GE’s total investment in Mississippi plants, where it will employ 600 after filling the new positions, is about $150 million, the Fairfield, Connecticut-based company said in the statement.
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