Georgia and tractors

[GreenWannabe]

CNH had a plant in Dublin, GA, which was the final assembly point for the Shibaura sourced Case IH and New Holland compact tractors. They closed this plant a few years ago when they changed from Shibaura to LS as their tractor source.

 

[scottymac]

Other than being tax friendly, non union labor , the port of Savannah,Ga is one the the key reasons many of these companies are located in Georgia

 

[scottymac]

The Kubota plant in Jefferson is over a one million square ft, two miles down the road you also have Deutz Engines, Takeuchi MFG and Toyota Denso Corp. Agco is appx 30 miles south in Duluth.

 

[NoSoMo]

Briggs and Straton has several MFG facilities in GA. Club Car is GA based and MFGs around Augusta. The port is currently in the process of being upgraded. I believe it's the 3rd busiest in the US currently.

Kia also has a large plant in W. GA. Lockheed builds a lot of aircraft here as well.

Pinewood studios (James Bond) just opened up a large film complex. Countless movies have been filmed here, Hunger Games being the largest. Walking Dead films here as well. It's a pro-business state for sure.

 

[yanmar1610d]

Port of Savannah is one of the main reasons. Savannah, Georgia Port is the 4th busiest port in the US and Charleston, South Carolina Port is the 10th busiest. Good reasons to have the plants in Georgia. Plus the work ethic of Georgia workers: (Hard working, devoted, Non-Union, good company people). Well anyway the Ports maybe the main reason.

 

[kneedeep]

Here in Alabama, there are several big mfg. plants with Mercedes being a major job producer in central AL.
People wait for years to get a job there where the pay is upwards of $80K/year for skilled labor. This translates into home, automobile, upper middle class purchases that keep a crappy economy working. Unemployed people don't buy what your company makes in most cases.

Recently there is a big Unionization effort. It seems that the good pay and safe working conditions are being downplayed by organizers. It is a well known fact that Mercedes does NOT tolerate tardiness, absenteeism or any type of lazy slackers in the work force. Those types don't last long there.

The UAW want to give the workers a better environment to work?!?! It will do the same as Steelworkers did for US Steel in later years- closed shops and lost jobs.

JMHO and no more.

 

[paulharvey]

Unions have basically destroyed this country. Sure, they had there place 100 years ago, getting young kids out of the coal mines and vastly improving manufacturing safety. Now a days they are basically trying to force companies to pay unskilled workers $15+/hour. Also with there "longest working, first to promote; last in/first laid off" stuff, it really reduces the ability of your good help to move up, in favor of guys who have just been there a long time. We have all seen people that are as slow/lazy/unable after 20 years as the day they started. Rules against cross training keep the union workers from learning more than one trade, and many are SOL when they do get laid off, because they have no marketable skills. Really makes it hard on small companies to have say 20 specialty guys rather than 10 jacks of all trades. I really can't imagine how anything gets built up in union country.

 

[beemerphile]

In all my years studying and practicing industrial management, I never saw a company with a union that I didn't think deserved one. I also never saw a company with a union that I thought was improved by one. Bad management leads to unions, but unions do not lead to good management. The combination almost invariably leads to a decline in competitiveness. But, the fish rots from the head. I would not blame the demise of our country's manufacturing base on unions. I would go farther up the line of causes and effects and look at company management as the key problem. I'm sure there is room to blame the actions of government as well, but there are company managements that find a way to be successful in spite of clumsy, misguided interventionist governments.

Management is cause. All else is effect.

 

[grsthegreat]

Ya think with all the assembly plants in Georgia that they would have enough tractors to clean up the snow on their freeways.....

 

[Katahdin]

This clip has video of the Yanmar plant in Adairsville.