The desire to create and develop environmentally-friendly engines to power the long haul freight trucking industry of the United States of America turned another corner on the long road to reducing the carbon wheel-print of the heavy haul industry of America the other day. Cummins Incorporated announced recently that they plan to expand production at their Cummins Industrial Center, which will now be called the Seymour Engine Plant in order to reflect company practices at other engine manufacturing facilities, with an investment of $100 million. Great news for the 450 employees presently on the job at the Cummins Industrial Centre and the expected 200 engineering and manufacturing workers that should be put to work in the expanded plant over the next five years.
Specific plans apparently call for Cummins Incorporated to expand production on its high horsepower engine production line and the work being done in its High-Horsepower Technical Center. Sources indicate that Cummins Incorporated could be working on a secret project, of sorts, to produce larger-displacement, high-horsepower clean diesel engines to help power roro and ltl freight transport around the United States in the years ahead in the century of the environment. They also indicate that this expansion should increase the engineering capability at the facility by twice its present capacity and add essential equipment and other upgrades the facility will need in the years ahead.
At present sources around the freight shipping industry of America indicate that preparations are being made to begin the construction of the planned expansion as soon as possible. They don’t expect to have the work done until sometime around the middle of 2011, at present, but this date could change in the days ahead. Still, this is great news for the freight forwarder providing customers with a great freight quote, and every trucking company in the United States of America. Hopefully, this is just the start of Cummins Incorporated’s planned expansions in the future and they put more Americans back to work and create the engines the long haul industry of America requires in the years ahead to reduce its carbon wheel-print to zero.
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