Caterpillar announced last week it plan to build a new hydraulic excavator plant in Victoria, Texas. The plant, roughly 80 miles north of Corpus Christi will employ 500 in a 600,000 square foot plant ...

PITTSBURGH – Caterpillar Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to lay off more than 2,400 employees at five U.S. plants as the heavy equipment maker continues to cut costs amid the global economic downturn.

PEORIA, Ill., Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Caterpillar Inc. CAT -0.65% announced today it has selected land near Athens, Georgia, as the location for a new facility that will build small ...

Gov. Nathan Deal today announced a factory for heavy equipment maker Caterpillar will be built in Georgia. The plant, near Athens, will initially create 800 jobs. As many as 1,400 will work at the ...

MARINETTE, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tyco Fire Protection Products, makers of the leading global brand ANSUL ®, announced the launch of its factory-installed fire suppression system program with ...

The new $200 million Caterpillar factory near Athens is expected to create 1,400 new jobs, according to Todd Henry, the plant manager. The factory, which is moving Japanese operations back to the U.S.

With the recent decision to shutter its sprawling manufacturing plant near the city of Aurora, Caterpillar is foisting a huge economic development challenge onto a region that has long depended on the ...

Caterpillar says it is indefinitely laying off 230 workers at its plant in East Peoria. The (Peoria) Journal Star reports that layoffs will start Oct. 12 and that they make a total of 500 Caterpillar ...