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Yokohama Tire distributors see uptick in business since plant announcement

Associated Press — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:24 +0000

WEST POINT — Since the recent announcement that tire manufacturer Yokohama Tire Company would be locating a plant in Clay County, area distributors have noticed an increased demand for the brand. Although the West Point plant will not make passenger car and light truck tires when it begins production in 2015, the company’s decision to [...]

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Senators want anti-dumping orders to stand on imported rebar

MBJ Staff — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:53:23 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are supporting a decision to maintain existing anti-dumping orders against unfairly subsidized imports of steel concrete rebar that harm American manufacturers. Cochran and Wicker in April signed a letter encouraging the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to extend the anti-dumping duties now imposed on [...]

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Ingalls lands another, $76.8M Coast Guard cutter

Associated Press — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:57:09 +0000

PASCAGOULA — The U.S. Coast Guard is exercising a $76.8 million contract option for another cutter to be built by Huntington Ingalls in Pascagoula. The $76.8 million will allow Huntington Ingalls to purchase material and components to support construction of the new cutter at its shipyard in Pascagoula, according to a news release Friday from [...]

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Chaney: Recalled gas cylinders can be deadly

MBJ Staff — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:59:33 +0000

JACKSON – Cylinders manufactured by a Franklin, Tenn.-based company and used largely in the liquefied petroleum gas service are the subject of an emergency recall order from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) of the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), Commissioner of Insurance/State, according to a release from Fire Marshal Mike Chaney. [...]

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Supervisors move to buy warehouse for Genesis Energy project

Associated Press — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:25:55 +0000

NATCHEZ — A chance to help a local industry speed up a $30-million investment has prompted the Adams County Board of Supervisors to simplify what had become a complex process to purchase large warehouse near the Natchez-Adams County Port. The county had originally planned to help purchase the building through a complicated agreement that would [...]

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PROFILE plant operates for one million hours without lost-time accident

MBJ Staff — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:27:36 +0000

BLUE MOUNTAIN — Officials from PROFILE Products and state and local officials gathered today to celebrate one million consecutive hours without a lost-time accident at the company’s facility in Blue Mountain. The company reached the milestone on April 8, following a streak that began more than 11 years ago in March 2002. PROFILE Products provides [...]

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Cooper Tire selling to Indian company for $2.22B

Associated Press — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:59:54 +0000

TUPELO — The head of Ohio’s Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. says a $2.2 billion deal that puts the company under new ownership won’t result in the closings of its three U.S. manufacturing plants. Cooper chief executive Roy Armes says India’s Apollo Tyres Ltd. also plans to retain Cooper’s management operation in Ohio. Apollo announced [...]

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Ex-MSU president to steer hiring for Yokohama Tire plant

Associated Press — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:25:15 +0000

WEST POINT — Former University of Alabama chancellor and Mississippi State University president Malcolm Portera begins work this month to ensure that locals get jobs at a tire plant being built in West Point. The Commercial Dispatch says Portera’s new role will be to make sure that jobs at the Yokohama Tire Corporation are filled [...]

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CertainTeed Ceilings putting $24M into Meridian plant restart

Ted Carter — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:01:17 +0000

MERIDIAN — In yet another sign that the building sector is coming back, CertainTeed Ceilings is restarting its manufacturing operations here after shutting down in 2009, making a $24 million investment in updating a plant that will eventually put more than 100 people to work in the next three years. Production is expected to resume [...]

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Index: Manufacturing in Southeast down; Miss. on bottom

MBJ Staff — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:47:10 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Manufacturing activity in the Southeast slipped during May, but manufacturers maintained their workforce with some additional hiring despite decreases in new orders, production and finished inventory, according to the Southeast’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report released by Kennesaw State University’s Econometric Center in the Michael J. Coles College of Business. “All six [...]

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