Here are the major new companies, expansions and jobs announced in Huntsville, Ala., in 2019, as collected by the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce. Dozens of smaller businesses from restaurants and coffee shops to clothing stores and startups also started or grew in the city during the year, but those are a story for another day. These are the bigger developments whose announcements suggest they will be hiring in 2020 and beyond.
YKT of Alabama
Lance Fulks, general manager of assembly at Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA in Huntsville.
YKT of Alabama is a major supplier of the new Mazda-Toyota auto plant under construction in west Huntsville in Limestone County. The company announced a $222 million investment in a new plant that will provide body parts and production equipment. Ultimately, the company will provide 650 jobs. “This new three-company consortium brings together some of the top suppliers in the automotive industry,” Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle said. “As with any success, collaboration is key. YKTA is following the model established by the Mazda Toyota joint venture to create a partnership on a dynamic campus that is going to lead the world in automotive innovation and opportunity.”
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Drone footage shows progress on construction at the Mazda Toyota facility in August 2019.
This new plant known informally as DNUS is another supplier for the Mazda Toyota in west Huntsville. It is making a $111 million investment in a facility to produce large resin parts such as bumpers and instrument panels for the automakers. The plant will provide 391 jobs when fully operational.
Vuteq USA Inc
A rendering of the Vuteq facility to be built in Huntsville near the Mazda Toyota plant.
Japan-based auto parts manufacturer Vuteq says it is building a new $66 million plant near the Mazda-Toyota plant now under construction in Huntsville. The plant will hire 200 workers to produce interior and exterior parts and various sub-assemblies for Mazda and Toyota at their new shared Alabama plant.
Blue Origin
This aerial photograph taken in early November shows the size and status of the new rocket engine plant Blue Origin is building in Huntsville, Ala.. The plant will build BE-3 and BE-4 engines for the next generation of United Launch Alliance rockets.
Blue Origin or “Blue” as it is sometimes called, is building a rocket engine plant in Huntsville’s Cummings Research Park to produce its BE-4 engine for use in United Launch Alliance rockets and Blue’s own next-generation rocket. The company announced 50 jobs in 2019 and an investment of $50 million. It is expected to begin operations in 2020. Blue is also working with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville to test its new engines on the historic test stand used to test the Apollo rocket engines.
Toyota Manufacturing Alabama
The final assembly building at the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA plant in Huntsville in August 2019.
Toyota is building a huge, shared plant with Mazda Motors of America in Limestone County near the Huntsville-Madison County International Airport, and the company has been investing and hiring since the plant was announced in 2018. The investment in 2019 was $270 million, and 450 jobs were announced. Toyota and Mazda will produce vehicles for their own brand and collaborate on research into future vehicles such as electric cars, the companies have said. The new plant is scheduled to open in 2021 at a location between the Huntsville International Airport and I-65.
Dynetics
The new Gilbert Advanced Manufacturing Facility on the Huntsville campus of Dynetics Corp. allows the company to compete in a new niche manufacturing market of small production runs for very technical products.
Dynetics is a local defense and space contractor that is also active in markets such as automobile manufacturing, electronics and security. In 2019, the company announced it would hire 200 more people and invest $5 million in its operations in the Huntsville area. Dynetics unveiled a new advanced manufacturing facility in Cummings Research Park and a new rocket testing facility at the United Launch Alliance complex in Decatur. The company was sold in December to tech giant Leidos for $1.6 billion.
Sanmina Corp.
Sanmina Corp. made the chamber’s major economic development announcement list not once, but twice in 2019. The company’s total new investment in the community was $85 million, and it hired 225 people. Sanmina is an electronics manufacturing company. It will be hiring next year in an array of fields including engineering.
Leidos
The new Gilbert Advanced Manufacturing Facility on the Huntsville campus of Dynetics Corp. allows the company to compete in a new niche manufacturing market of small production runs for very technical products.
Leidos is active in defense, health and civilian technical areas and invested $3 million in Huntsville during 2019. It hired 88 new employees. It finished the year in Huntsville with a bang by buying rising local company Dynetics for $1.6 billion.
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin plans a $19 million and 200-employee expansion in Huntsville, Ala., after winning a new Army contract to serve as the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon prototype system integrator.
Lockheed Martin is one of the biggest government contractors in the nation and active in Huntsville’s military industrial complex. In 2019, the company announced it will invest $19 million in new facilities and hire 200 people. Among the projects the company is working on in Huntsville is an effort to build a defense system against hypersonic weapons - weapons that move multiple times the speed of sound. A defense against hypersonic weapons is one of the Pentagon’s top priorities for the coming decade, and Huntsville is home to a cross-functional Defense Department team searching for answers.
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