It has a diesel-engine manufacturing plant at Manesar that can produce 300, 000 engines a year.
The plant, called the Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance, is a joint venture among DaimlerChrysler, Hyundai and Mitsubishi.
Both trace their corporate histories to the 1800s, both are based in Connecticut and both are leaders in jet engine manufacturing.
Richard Kenworthy, director of the Deeside engine manufacturing factory, said the new jobs were great news for the plant and for Wales.
The constructor will retain total control over its engine manufacturing base in Viry-Chatillon on the outskirts of Paris and also continue to supply engines to Red Bull in 2010.
And not the least, Navistar has been mentioned speculatively in the past as one of the attractive takeover candidates in truck and engine manufacturing which in part probably prompted Icahn into taking a reasonably big stake in the company.
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The Rolls-Royce Crosspointe jet engine disc manufacturing facility the President will visit is an example of how insourcing means companies from around the world are creating new, good paying jobs here at home.
This features Matthew Boulton and James Watt who were most celebrated for bringing the steam engine into the textile manufacturing process.
Meanwhile the major truck engine manufacturers are developing and manufacturing engines to run directly on natural gas.
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The Item Club highlights the importance of the large and diverse business services sector in being the main engine of growth, while manufacturing has stagnated and construction remains about 10% below its pre-downturn output.
Manufacturing is the engine of a robust economy.
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Unite claims Mahle Engine Systems wants to offshore component manufacturing for the automotive market to sites in Italy and Slovakia.
The Rolls-Royce Crosspointe facility is a center of excellence for advanced manufacturing of precision-engineered engine discs and other components for some of the most sophisticated aircraft in the world.
The Italian carmaker, which took control of Chrysler when it exited bankruptcy, recently bumped its stake in Chrysler to 25% by achieving the first of three government-required milestones: manufacturing a fuel-efficient engine in the United States.
Modern manufacturing processes combined with electronic fuel control and engine diagnostics make a single-engine jet much safer than earlier models.
Other recent indicators have suggested that manufacturing is stalling after acting as a growth engine for much of the recovery.
Apart from this, Suzuki is manufacturing under license 200, 000 units of a Fiat designed 1300 cc diesel engine.
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The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.--sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.
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