September 2014

MANCHESTER, TN (April) Michigan-based Aspen Technologies, Inc. officials an-nounced the company will locate a new polyu-rethane foam molding plant in the Manchester Industrial Park. With a goal of doubling its mold-ing capacity by opening the Manchester facility, the company will invest $5.1 million and create 161 new jobs over the next five years in Coffee County.

Aspen Technologies strives to bring jobs back to the United States and is currently working with two companies to take over business that is being produced in China.

“Aspen Technologies is very excited to be ex-panding its manufacturing into Manchester, Tennessee,” Aspen Technologies Vice Presi-dent Keith Quinn said. “It has been a pleasure working with the Industrial Board, city, county and state officials to make this expansion possi-ble. The beautiful state of Tennessee along with its friendly people, especially the people of Coffee County, made the decision to locate in Manchester very easy. As we gear up our oper-ations, we will continue to look for other oppor-tunities to bring more work back home.”

Aspen Technologies’ customer base is primarily automotive. In recent years, however, the com-pany has been awarded a considerable amount

Aspen Technologies Molding Coffee County

MTIDA held its Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors on July 31, 2014 at the Embassy Suites in Murfreesboro.

The new officers for 2014-2015 are President: Darrell Gillespie, Dickson Electric Department, Vice President: Jimmy Gregory, Upper Cumberland Elec. Mem. Corp. and Secretary-Treasurer: Wes Kelley, Columbia Power & Water Systems. Additional Ex-ecutive Committee Members are: Bill Rogers, Caney Fork Electric Cooperative; Derek Church, Mount Pleasant Power System; Chris Jones, Middle TN Electric Membership Corp.; and Steven Moore, Tennessee Valley Authority.

On August 1st, MTIDA held an Economic Development Semi-nar and Golf Tournament.

Approximately 115 community, State, TVA, and electric distrib-utors attended the seminar.

MTIDA Elects New Executive Committee For 2014-2015 Mr. Joe Ritch, Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors spoke on “The Power of Working To-gether”; Clay Banks, State of TN ECD, Victoria Hirschberg, State of TN ECD and Daryl Phillips, Director Cheatham Connect spoke on the trending technology in Economic Devel-opment; and Jason Brake, TVA and Steve Schaller, TVA spoke on “Bringing Vision to Your Site”.

Bill Rogers, General Man-ager, Caney Fork Electric Coop.

Jimmy Gregory, General Manager, Upper Cumber-land EMC

R. Wes Kelley, Executive Director, Columbia Power & Water Systems

Darrell Gillespie, General Manager ,Dickson Electric Dept.

Derek Church, General Manag-er, Mt. Pleasant Power System

Chris Jones, President, Mid-dle TN Electric Membership Corp.

Steven Moore, Target Market Specialist, Tennessee Valley Authority.

of non-automotive based business and intends to shift approximately 25 percent of its sales to non-automotive related sectors.

The company was founded in 2003 to develop, manufacture and assemble specialized polyure-thane foam products for the automotive industry as well as heavy truck and sport recreation markets.

Aspen Technologies started the hiring process in June and production in the new facility the first week of July.Source: TN ECD

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MURFREESBORO, TN (April) Enovate Medical officials announced the company will expand operations at its U.S. head-quarters facility located at 1152 Park Ave. in Murfreesboro and create 410 new jobs over the next five years. The expansion in Rutherford County repre-sents an investment of $13.1 million by the medical device and technology com-pany and stems from the consolidation of operations at its Canton, Michigan facili-ty. The expansion will include their cor-porate headquarters, manufacturing, and R&D facilities located in Murfreesboro.

Enovate Medical designs space-saving, ergonomically correct and comfortable to use wall-mounted computer work-stations, mobile computer workstations and medication transport-storage sys-

Enovate Medical Expanding

tems that integrate seamlessly into any healthcare environment. Whether using electronic medica-tion administration records or com-puterized physician order entry and nurse documentation systems, Eno-vate Medical’s innovative solutions are designed to improve the critical acquisition, interpretation, and transfer of patient data and medication at the point of care. Enovate Medical also manufactures and markets innovative power systems that provide 24/7 power to these mobile work-stations.

Novità Technologies Lights Up Sumner County HENDERSONVILLE, TN (May) Novità Technologies officials announced the company will expand its Hendersonville operations by investing $3.2 million in building and infrastructure improvements to an existing facility located at 175 Old Shackle Island Rd. The expansion will allow Novità Technologies to double its Hendersonville footprint and create 31 new jobs, increasing its workforce by 60 percent. Renovations have been underway since early February, and the new facility will be fully opera-tional by August.

“We’re very grateful to be in such an inspiring city such as Henderson-ville,” Novità President Mike Incorvaia said. “Our primary aim is to bring lighting innovation to automobiles, and at the same time provide a great place to work near where you live. We are successful because of our employees and leadership team. True economic development is a team effort and I want to thank the Mayor and city and county officials, as well as my friends at Forward Sumner, specifically Jimmy Johnston who has been on this journey with Novità since our beginning.”

Novità Technologies designs and manufactures on-board lighting solu-tions with fully integrated controls on OEM and aftermarket applications throughout the automotive sector. LED lighting in automotive applications is part of Novità’s expertise as they provide one-of-a-kind semiconductor and printed circuit board solutions for interior and exterior lighting appli-cations.Source: TN ECD

LEWISBURG, TN (April) Meiwa Industry North America celebrated the grand opening of its first U.S. plant in Lewisburg. In June 2013, the company announced it would invest $6.1 million and create 98 new jobs in Marshall Coun-ty. The company currently supplies products to Japanese car manufacturers, including Nissan, Toyota and Honda. The celebration included remarks from company, state and local officials, a performance by the Marshall County High School Band and cheerleaders, as well as a traditional Sake Barrel Ceremony and painting the eyes of a Daruma doll, which symbolizes accomplishment and looking to the future. Meiwa Industry North America also donated $10,000 to Mar-shall County High School. Source: TN ECD

Meiwa Celebrates Grand Opening

Enovate Medical plans to add jobs over the next five years at its Murfreesboro facility. The company will be hiring for manufactur-ing, maintenance, office and management positions. Source: TN ECD

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PORTLAND, TN (June)  Hatch Stamping Company offi-cials announced the company will locate a new manufacturing facili-ty in Portland in an effort to ex-pand its footprint in the South-east. The Michigan-based auto-motive components manufacturer will invest $17 million in an exist-ing facility and create 101 new jobs in Robertson County, with a goal of being fully operational by January 2015.

Hatch Stamping Company will design and manufacture highly engineered metal stampings and assemblies in a 106,000 square foot manufacturing facility located at 1216 Jaybird Dr. in Portland. The company is a Tier I and Tier II automotive supplier and will produce parts for the southeast-ern market and worldwide distri-bution.

Hatch Putting a Stamp on Portland

GOODLETTSVILLE, TN (May) Ty-son Foods, Inc. officials announced the food processor will invest $15.5 million to expand its current opera-tions in Goodlettsville and hire and train 157 new workers.

Tyson Foods’ investment will add four production lines and expand cold storage capabilities at its Tyson Fresh Meats facility at 201 Cart-wright Dr. in Goodlettsville. The na-tion’s second-largest food processor produces case-ready beef and pork products for grocery stores and oth-er retailers at the plant, which al-ready employs roughly 1,600 work-ers.

Tyson Foods Beefs Up Jobs

The addition of this new location will expand the company’s global footprint to meet the needs of its customers with the ability to offer all of its existing products and services in a southern location.

Hatch Stamping currently has five manufacturing facilities and a sales office in Michigan, and one manufacturing facility in Quereta-ro, Mexico. Products include brake, seat, fuel and safety-restraint systems for automobiles.Source: TN ECD

From L-R: Janet McGlinch, a representative of Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. Purchasing Division; Crystal Campbell, Assembler; Tim Goble, Plant Manager; Neil Casey, Quality Manager; Mark Miller, President of U.S. Tsubaki Automotive, LLC PORTLAND, TN (May) Congratulations to U.S. Tsubaki Automotive in Portland for being recog-nized with a Honda Quality Award. The company was in the top 3 percent of its class, since it was honored in two categories: Excellence in Delivery and Quality.

U.S. Tsubaki Automotive is the world leader in chain technology and offers its customers the finest state-of-the-art power transmission products availa-ble in the world.Tsubaki’s customers include the major automotive OEMs in North America: General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Nissan and Honda. The company provides complete services including initial design support utilizing CAD, component and engine testing and analysis.Source: TN ECD

U.S. Tsubaki Honored

HARTSVILLE, TN (May) ARC Automotive, Inc. officials an-nounced the global automotive parts manufacturer will expand its long-time presence in Tennes-see. The company will invest approximately $3 million to locate a new manufacturing facility in Hartsville to expand its automo-tive airbag inflator product production capability, creating 66 new jobs in Trousdale County.

The new facility will be built at the PowerCom Industrial Center, centrally located and convenient to ARC Auto-motive’s Knoxville and Morgantown inflator manufacturing operations. Site development is expected to start within the next few weeks with the construction of roads, buildings and infrastructure.

“The selection of Trousdale County for 66 manufacturing jobs is an out-standing announcement and will be a significant economic impact on our community,” Trousdale County Mayor Jake West said. “We welcome ARC Automotive as our new corporate neighbors to Hartsville and appreciate their confidence in our workforce. On behalf of the citizens of Trousdale County, as County Mayor, I want to

express my appreciation to everyone who had a hand in making this ven-ture become reality. It was a great team effort lead by TVA and the state of Tennessee’s Department of ECD, and assisted by the Four Lake Re-gional Industrial Development Author-ity, Middle Tennessee Industrial De-velopment Association, Tri-County Electric, our State Legislators, and several Trousdale County officials.”

Production at the Hartsville facility is targeted for the third quarter of 2014 with manufacturing and employment expected to gradually increase over a two-year period. Source: TN ECD

ARC Automotive Inflating It’s Presence

Work has already begun to install the new equipment. Hiring is expected to begin in June for the newly created production jobs, all of which are full-time.

Tyson Foods and its subsidiaries em-ploy more than 4,300 Tennesseans at company facilities in Goodlettsville, Shelbyville and Union City. They also support roughly 335 Tennessee farm-ers who raise chickens for the compa-ny’s poultry operations or supply the beef and pork operations with cattle and hogs. Source: TN ECD

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Southtec Grows In Wilson County LEBANON, TN (June) Southtec, LLC officials an-nounced the company will ex-pand its current operations in Lebanon. The automotive parts manufacturer will invest $23.6 million to add onto its existing facility in Lebanon, as well as develop a new Lebanon proper-ty creating 210 new jobs.

Southtec is expanding due to volume increases attributed to businesses with OEMs. The company produces stampings and welded assemblies for the automotive industry. Southtec

currently operates in Lebanon with 315 employees. That facili-ty will require an expansion of approximately 30,250 square feet to accommodate two new large automotive stamping presses and associated equip-ment and employees.

Additionally, Southtec will de-velop a new, but existing facili-ty, in Lebanon. In total, these expansions will bring Southtec’s total Tennessee employment to 525 employees, a 66 percent increase over three to four years.Source: TN ECD

COLUMBIA, TN (June) CLARCOR Inc. officials an-nounced the company will ac-quire a 62,250 square foot structure in Columbia to create a state-of-the-art global re-search and product develop-ment resource to be known as the CLARCOR Innovation Cen-ter. CLARCOR, a global provid-er of filtration products, systems and services, will invest in ex-cess of $10 million and create 35 new jobs across its two Mid-dle Tennessee locations over the next five years.

CLARCOR will immediately begin renovation of a two-story commercial building at 2203 Oakland Pkwy. The CLARCOR Innovation Center will include research laboratories, pilot and semi-works lines, a Center of Excellence for nanofiber pro-duction and a Learning Center to educate and showcase CLARCOR to customers, new employees and shareholders.

Located just 30 miles from CLARCOR’s corporate head-quarters in Franklin, the Innova-tion Center will house a staff of research scientists and engi-neers, along with the company’s Advanced Filtration Solutions group. Source: TN ECD

CLARCOR to Establish State-of-the-Art Innovation Center in Columbia

GALLATIN, TN (July) It was announced that ABC Group Inc. will expand and double its workforce in Gallatin.

The company will invest $25.5 million in land, equipment and infrastructure in order to create 230 jobs over a period of five years in the town. At the current facility there are 196 employ-ees.

The company makes automotive parts and is expanding its plant in order to increase production capacity of interior trim, console and load floors for the GMC and Cadillac vehicles manufactured at the General Motors location in Spring Hill.

Over the past two years, Gallatin has made announcements about 1,100 new jobs, according to Gallatin Economic Development Agency Director James Fenton. “That many announcements in that short period of time is just unprecedented in Gallatin’s history,” Fenton told The Tennessean. “We’ve had robust interest in Gallatin. Obviously, the economy turning around had a great deal to do with it and the foresight and planning of the city to invest in itself.” “Gallatin is firing on all cylin-ders,” Fenton said. “The entire city is up and operating at top efficiency and that makes a big im-pression on companies that are looking.” Source: The Tennessean

CKNA Continues to Grow

LEWISBURG, TN (June) Calson-ic Kansei North America (CKNA) celebrated the grand opening of its new distribution facility in Lewisburg. The company broke ground on the Marshall County expansion, which will create 526 new jobs over the next three years, in July 2013. This new fa-cility will operate 24 hours a day and supply to Nissan.

CKNA is also expanding its foot-print at its other two Middle Ten-nessee facilities. In September 2013, the company announced it would invest $57.6 million at its Shelbyville facility, which manu-factures exhaust units, catalytic

converters and manifolds and add approximately 489 new jobs over the next three years.

The company also announced it would invest $2.1 million at its Smyrna facility, which is located within the Nissan plant and places Calsonic products into the Nissan vehicles, and add approximately 183 new jobs will be created over the next three years.

CKNA expects the expansions will be completed around De-cember 2015. Source: TN ECD

“Gallatin Is Firing On All Cylinders”

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American Colors Building Lab in Gallatin GALLATIN, TN (July) American Colors Inc. announced plans to build a new 30,000 square foot manufacturing and research facility in the Gallatin Industrial Center, a Select Tennessee Certified Site. To support ongoing growth at the company’s existing Lebanon location, American Colors will invest $3.7 million and create 31 new jobs in Sumner Coun-ty.

The Gallatin facility will produce products for the composites, coatings, plastics and agricultural industries and also include a research lab housing chemists and tech-nicians. American Colors anticipates the facility will be fully operational by the first quarter of 2015.

In addition to the company’s Tennessee facilities, American Colors has manufac-turing locations in Sandusky, Ohio and

Hankook Site Preparation

Shanghai, China to serve the company’s Asian mar-kets.

American Colors is a manu-facturer of high quality liquid pigment systems and inter-mediates specializing in customer-focused solutions to complex coatings and colorants problems. The company enlists personnel and couples them with pre-mium production equipment and state-of-the-art laborato-ry instruments. Source: TN ECD

CLARKSVILLE, TN (July) Site preparation and grading are now well underway for Hankook Tire along Internation-al Boulevard near Rossview Road and Exit 8 of Interstate 24 in Clarksville. The grading at the 469 acre site involves moving 4.5 million yards of dirt. By October, Hankook ex-pects to begin the two-phase construction process for their 1.5 million square foot, $800 million tire plant.

Last October, the South Korean tire manufacturer an-nounced plans to locate its first U.S. manufacturing facility at the Clarksville Corporate Business Park in Montgomery County. Hankook Tire will invest $800 million in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and create 1,800 new jobs in Clarksville. The company is expected to begin tire produc-tion at this new facility by 2016. Source: TN ECD

NASHVILLE, TN (July) UBS held a ribbon cutting ceremony in downtown Nashville to cele-brate the grand opening of its new Business Solutions Cen-ter. The global financial ser-vices company announced new community partnerships with Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN), a public-private partnership focused on sup-porting the development of high-growth companies in Tennes-see, and Nashville-based Ten-nessee Access and Success Network (TCASN), an organization that seeks to remove higher education barriers, promote college persistence, and increase postsecondary completion rates.

UBS revealed plans for the center last August including an investment of $36.5 million and the creation of 1,000 new jobs over the next five years. The UBS Nashville Business Solutions Center will offer expanded business services in support of the firm’s Wealth Management and Investment Banking divisions. Source: TN ECD

UBS Celebrates Ribbon Cutting in Nashville

L-R: Rob Jones, Plant Manager for American Colors Inc (ACI); Matt Kosior, COO for ACI; Mayor Jo Ann Graves; Jim Wible, President/CEO of ACI; James Fenton, Gallatin EDA Executive Director ; and Jim Hallock, VP of ACI

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SPRINGFIELD, TN (July) Schrader International, the leading global manufacturer of sensing and valve solutions, announces two sig-nificant achievements for the compa-ny. As an innovator in tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS), Schrad-er has now produced 300 million TPMS sensors, a vehicle safety feature that’s standard on all cars and light trucks sold in the U.S., Europe and several Asia-Pacific countries. Supporting this continued global growth of TPMS technology, Schrader has also expanded its Springfield, Tenn., facility with a new $15 million capacity investment. Both milestones are symbolic of Schrader’s continued leadership in technology, rapid industry growth and ongoing commitment to its em-ployees in Springfield, TN.

For those global vehicle platforms equipped with direct TPMS technolo-gy, more than half utilize Schrader

sensors. With the adoption of TPMS legislation in Europe, Russia and in several Asia-Pacific countries, and growth among American vehicle manufacturers, Schrader is nearly doubling its manufacturing capacity and capabilities both in the U.S. and internationally to keep pace with the global demand for TPMS integration.

With additional capacity in place, the Springfield facility will continue to be a hub for high-tech TPMS manufac-turing in the U.S. The investment in the newly installed equipment and facility expansion will increase the location’s production capacity by more than 50%, and create an addi-tional 100 new high-tech manufac-turing jobs in the local Springfield area.

Schrader hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the milestone, with several federal and state gov-ernmental officials in attendance,

including U.S. Representative Diane Black (R-Tenn.).

For more than 165 years, Schrader has been the global leader in the design and manufacture of valve, mechanical and electronic system components and sensing technolo-gies. Schrader has been recognized by many government organizations

Schrader Reaches Two Major Milestones

PULASKI, TN (July) Magneti Marelli, located in Pulaski, re-ceived the prestigious 2014 Jeep Cherokee Supplier Launch Recognition Award from Chrysler. Only four of more than 300 suppliers for the Jeep Cherokee received this recognition. Representatives from Chrysler presented the award at a cere-mony Thursday afternoon at the plant. Accepting on behalf of Magneti Marelli were four employees, “the Core Four,” in-volved with the original product launch in 2013.

The lighting division opened in 2013 in Pulaski. Magneti Ma-relli employs more than 650 at the plant in Tennessee.

Source: TN ECD

Magneti Marelli Honored

NASHVILLE, TN (August) Ser-viceSource officials announced their plans to expand the compa-ny’s Nashville sales center with the creation of 100 full-time jobs.

ServiceSource will hire sales rep-resentatives and other support staff that manage service contract and subscription renewals for more than 40 hardware, software, software as a service, and health care technology companies, ac-cording to a release. The San Francisco-based company did not note in the release a timetable to have the 100 new employees in place.

The new employees will work from ServiceSource’s downtown tower, in which the company leases eight floors and has 800 employees. The Nashville office, which repre-sents ServiceSource’s largest sales center, supports multiple Silicon Valley-based customers, providing a high-tech linkage with the San Francisco Bay area.

ServiceSource bills itself as the third largest technology employer in the greater Nashville area.

Customers supported from the Nashville sales center include Adobe, Affymetrix, Beckman Coul-ter, Cardiac Science, Gerber, Google and Siemens. Source: TN ECD

ServiceSource Expanding Downtown

for its commitment to innovation, quality and safety, and the company won its second Frost & Sullivan® Leadership Award for TPMS in both OEM and aftermarket channels in 2013. Source: Schrader International web-site

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Beretta USA Announces Decision to Move GALLATIN, TN (July) Beretta U.S.A. Corp., located in Ac-cokeek, Maryland, announced that it has decided to move its manu-facturing capabilities from its exist-ing location to a new production facility that it is building in Gallatin.

The Gallatin facility is scheduled to be opened in mid-2015. Beretta U.S.A. had previously planned to use the new Gallatin-facility for new machinery and production of new products only.

The transition of production from Beretta U.S.A.’s Maryland facility to the Tennessee facility will not occur until 2015 and will be man-aged so as not to disrupt deliver-ies to Beretta customers. Beretta U.S.A.’s production of the U.S. Armed Forces M9 9mm pistol will continue at the Accokeek, Mary-land facility until all current orders from the U.S. Armed Forces have been filled.

Beretta U.S.A. anticipates that the Gallatin facility will involve $45 million of investment in building and equipment and the employ-ment of around 300 employees during the next five years.

Beretta U.S.A. has no plans to relocate its office, administra-tive and executive support func-tions from its Accokeek, Mary-land facility. Source: TN ECD

COOKEVILLE, TN (August) Academy Sports + Outdoors officials announced the company will build a new 1.6 million square foot distribution center on more than 200 acres in Cookeville to support continued company growth. The premier sports, out-doors and lifestyle retailer will invest $100 million and create approximately 700 new jobs in Putnam County over the next five years.

Academy Sports + Outdoors will began construction on the facility in August and plans to become operational in early 2016. The site is located south of Old Stewart Road along Interstate 40 on the west side of Cookeville. This will be the company’s third distribution center.

Academy Sports + Outdoors currently oper-ates nine stores in Tennessee with a 10th store planned to open this fall in Memphis.

The company is headquartered in Katy, Texas with a distribution facility there as well as a second distribution center in Jefferson-ville, Georgia.

The company will begin initial hiring in Fall 2015.

Academy Sports + Outdoors is a premier sports, outdoor and life-style retailer with a broad assort-ment of quality hunting, fishing and camping equipment and gear along with sports and leisure products, footwear, apparel and much more. The Texas-based company operates 178 stores throughout

GALLATIN, TN (August) Beretta U.S.A. celebrated the groundbreak-ing of its new, state-of-the-art production facility and campus in Gallatin in August. The world-renowned gun manufacturer an-nounced in January that it would invest $45 million in this manufac-turing and R&D facility in the Gal-latin Industrial Park and create 300 new jobs.

In July, Beretta U.S.A. announced it would move all of its manufac-

turing operations from Maryland to Tennessee.

Beretta U.S.A. officials were joined at the groundbreaking by Gov. Haslam, Commisisoner Hagerty, U.S. Senator Lamar Al-exander, U.S. Representative Diane Black and other state and local officials. Source: TN ECD

Academy Sports + Outdoors Plans $100 Million Distribution Center

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kan-sas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Ten-nessee and Texas. Source: TN ECD

SPRING HILL, TN (August) General Mo-tors officials announced the company will invest $185 million to make small gas en-gines at its Spring Hill manufacturing com-plex. GM also identified the next-generation Cadillac SRX as a future mid-size vehicle to be produced at Spring Hill.

The investment supports GM’s new small displacement engine, which is part of an all-new Ecotec engine family that will be

used by five GM brands in 27 models by the 2017 model year, powering many of the company’s high-volume small car and com-pact-crossover vehicles. Spring Hill is among six manufacturing lo-cations around the globe that will produce the new engine, and an additional $48.4 million investment is planned for the Bed-ford, Indiana powertrain castings plant.

COOKEVILLE, TN (August) Based in Glenwillow, Ohio -TTI Floor Care North America, which bought Oreck Company last summer, announced the company will invest in its Cookeville facility by adding additional manufacturing capaci-ty to introduce new product lines and support existing product transfers.

TTI Floor Care North America will create 211 new jobs in Put-nam County, nearly doubling its workforce over the next five years.

As TTI Floor Care’s operations expand and product lines are moved to Cookeville, the compa-ny plans to return portions of their production capacity from China and Mexico.

TTI Floor Care North America is one of the largest floor care manufacturers in North America and home to Hoover, Dirt Devil and Oreck vacuum clean-ers. The Cookeville facility supports the company’s manufacturing, assem-bly and distribution operations, and will receive extensive building upgrades and infrastructure improvements through the expansion. TTI also maintains a call center at the Cookeville location. Worldwide, TTI has about 18,800 employees and had nearly $4.3 billion in sales during 2013Source: TN ECD

SMYRNA, TN (August) Federal-Mogul officials announced the company will invest $6.2 million to expand its current distribu-tion facility in Smyrna and create 135 new jobs in Rutherford County.

The company is expanding its existing Worldwide Aftermarket Distribution Center in Smyrna, due to the recent purchase of part of Affinia’s product line. Affinia is a leader in the manufac-turing and distribution of automotive replacement products.

As part of this expansion, Federal-Mogul will increase its Smyr-na footprint from 600,000 square feet to 800,000 square feet. This larger warehouse and distribution capacity will allow the facility to become more productive.

In addition to its Smyrna location, Federal-Mogul has operations in Smithville and Sparta, Tennessee. In total, approximately 1,000 people are employed at Federal-Mogul’s three Tennes-see locations.Source: TN ECD

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GM Shifts Car, Engine Output to TN

New Oreck Owner to Add Jobs in Cookeville

Federal-Mogul Expanding Footprint

The naming of the Cadillac SRX program follows GM’s previously announced $350 million investment in Spring Hill for two future mid-size vehicles expected to create or retain approximately 1,800 jobs. Source:

TN ECD

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2014-2015 Executive Committee

PRESIDENT Darrell Gillespie, General Manager

Dickson Electric System P.O. Box 627

Dickson, TN 37056

VICE PRESIDENT Jimmy Gregory, General Manger

Upper Cumberland EMC P.O. Box 159

South Carthage, TN 37030

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P.O. Box 379 Columbia, TN 38401

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Mount Pleasant Power System P.O. Box 186,

Mt. Pleasant, TN 38474-0186

Chris Jones, President Middle TN Electric Mem. Corp.

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McMinnville, TN 37111

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Nashville, TN 37229-2409

The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development announced the next four Middle Tennessee Select Tennessee Certi-fied Sites. The Select Tennessee program was launched in June 2012 with the goal of helping Tennessee communities prepare available sites for investment and expansion. The program sets a consistent and rigorous standard upon which companies can rely in making critical location decisions. To date, 34 greenfield sites have been certified and new facilities are being located at Select Tennessee Sites in Anderson, Benton, Dyer, Montgomery and Sumner Coun-ties. The four newest Middle Tennessee sites are: • Cherry Glen Industrial Park: Maury County (Hwy 43/Sam Watkins Blvd., Mt. Pleasant) • Fayetteville-Lincoln County Industrial Park, Lot 4: Lincoln County (Winchester High-way, Fayetteville) • Team Lawrence Commerce Park, East Site: Lawrence County (US Highway 43N, Ethridge) • Team Lawrence Commerce Park, West Site: Lawrence County (US Highway 43N, Ethridge)

The program acknowledges that companies looking to expand or relocate their operations often eliminate less-prepared sites and ad-dresses this issue by ensuring sites meet a specific standard. Among the qualifications needed to become certified, a site must have at least 20 developable acres, proper zoning in place to allow for ease of development, all utili-ties at the site or a formal plan to extend to the site, and truck-quality road access. A hallmark of the program is ensuring that Ten-nessee sites are ready for development, wheth-er through marketing those ready for a prospect or providing guidance for uncertified sites to achieve a higher level of preparedness. TNECD has partnered with Austin Consulting and The Foote Consulting Group to administer the program. There are now 34 Select Tennessee Certified Sites available in 22 different counties across the state. Communities interested in participat-ing in the program must begin the formal appli-cation process by sending in their letter of in-tent. The letter of intent can be sent in by email to Select.Tennessee@tn.gov at any time. An example of the letter of intent and more infor-mation about the program can be found at http://tnecd.com/apply.html. Source: TN ECD

Select Tennessee Certified Sites

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