by MBJ Staff Published: January 15,2012
Tags: automobile, Automotive, Cars, colleges, education, electricity, energy, green power, higher education, manufacturing, power, solar energy, SUVs, trucks, universities, vans, vehicles
OXFORD — The Center for Manufacturing Excellence at the University of Mississippi had generated 57 kilowatt-hours of electricity, enough power to run the center’s administrative offices and classrooms, or to brew 1,986 cups of coffee. With the installation of more than 400 photovoltaic solar panels complete, the year-old building is the largest roof-mounted solar power [...] [...]
SHERMAN — KC Integrated Services, a full-service supply chain solutions provider, is locating a logistics service center in Sherman in Pontotoc County. KC Integrated Services’ Sherman facility will service Toyota and Toyota’s Tier I suppliers, providing just-in-time delivery services to support Toyota’s production control system at its automotive manufacturing plant in Blue Springs. In addition, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: July 29,2011
Tags: automakers, automobile, charitable giving, disaster, disaster recovery, donations, flood, flooding, manufacturing, natural disaster, rain, severe weather, tornadoes, Weather, wind
Toyota and its Japanese employees have donated $330,000 to the tornado relief efforts to be evenly distributed between the disaster relief programs in Alabama and Mississippi. Steve St. Angelo, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., said, “We are grateful to our colleagues in Japan for their generosity to the [...] [...]
Doug Wilson, a long-time automobile dealer in metro Jackson now based in Flowood, wrote a troubling commentary in this space in the Aug. 31, 2009 issue. Though I certainly respect Mr. Wilson and his opinions, much of what he wrote in defense of the federal-government-knows-best “Cash for Clunkers” requires some further thought. Mr. Wilson bases [...] [...]
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