"Shipbuilder Austal completes first stage of $170 million module manufacturing facility in Mobile"
Posted by Kaija Wilkinson, Business Reporter August 30, 2009
Joe Rella, president and chief operating officer of Austal USA in Mobile, carries a Frisbee-size disk of aluminum as he walks through the first phase of the shipyard's $170 million module manufacturing facility. Engraved on the disk in plain block letters: John Rothwell, First Plate Cut, MMF...
Starting in October, Austal plans to begin hiring like crazy, Rella said, growing employment from its current 950 or so to about 1,300 people. More military work could move the total jobs near 3,000 within five years, the company has said...
The first quarter of next year, Rella said, the facility will be humming "full bore" on components of the JHSV...
COMING NEXT WEEK
• Taking the pulse of the local shipbuilding industry: Austal was one of five local shipyards to recently receive stimulus grant money. Austal will use its $1.8 million grant to buy an overhead crane for the ship shed where its second littoral combat ship is taking shape...
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