GE TO OPEN LOCOMOTIVE PLANT IN FORT WORTH

FORT WORTH — GE Transportation, a manufacturer of rail and transportation products, intends to open a new locomotive manufacturing facility in Fort Worth. GE will invest up to $96 million in the new plant and will create more than 500 new high-tech manufacturing jobs. Production is scheduled to start by 2012 as a 900,000-square-foot facility is under consideration. GE anticipates launching its formal hiring process for both salaried employees and production workers for the facility later this year. Production workers will include welders, assemblers, painters and related skilled labor. The state of Texas will commit up to $4.2 million in incentives toward the project through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF).