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Chinese rail car Maker Builds Support for Springfield can Factory.
Officials with CNR-CRC from China, the largest manufacturer of the world's passenger cars, visited Putnam Technical and Vocational High School Friday looking sheet metal, welding, robotics and auto repair services in 1,350 school students .
company president Lu Xiwei said he was impressed by what he saw and what he said about the high standards required of students.
I am happy to be here, I think they will be our future partner I congratulate Springfield to have such a nice school.
Springfield School Superintendent Dan Warwick said that public schools are part of a partnership with the Regional Employment Office of Hampden County to create employee training programs to RSS-CRC.
Many of our professional stores will fit directly into the skills they need for their workers.
Lu and other potential company executives spent the week in Massachusetts seeking the support of local officials and state They had two days of meetings with subcontractors and Thursday visited the Statehouse in Boston.
Looking all the resources here I need to know the local community.
The company has an option to purchase a site 40- acre was a former Westinghouse manufacturing center and offers a 125,000 square foot assembly plant One such project with the potential of hundreds of well-paying manufacturing jobs was not proposed in western Massachusetts for decades.
CNR-CRC has an option to purchase this property in Springfield and offers assembly plant 125,000 square feet.
CNR-CRC was invited to locate the hub for US operations in Massachusetts, as it plans to bid later this year to provide hundreds of new subway cars for the MBTA, according to the company spokesman Lydia Rivera.
There are a lot of due diligence to continue, but the goal is to bring a North American manufacturing plant here to Springfield and provide work and develop a workforce here.
The factory cars could employ up to 300 people and cause a ripple effect for jobs in other precision area manufacturers, according to David Cruise, this REB of Hampden County.
Whenever you put in a transaction of this magnitude, you will have a multiplier effect in the region here will major We have a supply chain here that will be able to clearly answer their needs.
No time table was announced for a final decision on the construction of the plant in Springfield The contract for new subway cars MBTA, which is potentially a value of 1 5 billion expected to be awarded in November.
One day after a Massachusetts economy report said that has steadily increased at the end of last year Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick came to Western Massachusetts today to promote the growth of the state's manufacturing sector .
Governor Patrick visited Advance Manufacturing Co Westfield - a family- owned company that employs 200 people The company manufactures precision parts that are used on submarines, fighter jets, helicopters and the International Space Station.
The Secretary Greg Bialecki Massachusetts Economic Development said it is optimistic about the future of manufacturing precision But the state is facing a challenge to train a workforce for jobs in manufacturing Bialecki the week last visited a Springfield Technical Community College training center where the state spent 1 $ 2 million to expand and modernize classrooms Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill of WAMC spoke Bialecki.
The leaders of the U S Department of Housing and Urban Development approved the plans for the city of Springfield, Massachusetts to spend 13 million on redeveloping a poor area of the city damaged by a tornado in June 1,2011.
And buildings damaged by fire blight will be demolished, streets and sidewalks repaved, new built homes, parks and other public properties improved Maple High-Six Corners, an area still low-income struggling to recover the historic 2011 storm.
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