WOODWARD SELECTS LOVES PARK FOR $200M EXPANSION

LOVES PARK, ILL. — Woodward Inc., an energy and aerospace company, plans to build a $200 million manufacturing campus in Loves Park, just north of Rockford, Ill. The campus will include a 300,000-square-foot production plant and office center on 60 acres. The site will house Woodward's aircraft turbine systems business, and the facility is expected to create 660 jobs over the next five years. Woodward is expected to break ground later this year.