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D E L I V E R Y   S Y S T E M
34 Technical Colleges With Multiple Campuses
4 University System Colleges With Technical Divisions

Michael F. Vollmer, Commissioner
Georgia Department of Technical
and Adult Education

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Quick Start Project Announcements
                                                  ... Serving communities throughout Georgia

Albany: Albany Bedding of American Signature Inc., maker of high-quality mattresses, is opening a new facility and creating approximately 100 jobs.

Atlanta: AmeriCold Logistics is starting a new third-party storage and distribution services operation in a recently-built warehouse in Atlanta and creating approximately 150 new jobs.

Atlanta: Saddle Creek Corporation is expanding and building a new third-party storage and distribution center and creating 90 new jobs.

Augusta: Castleberry Food Company is expanding and increasing product variety and creating 66 new jobs.

Augusta: FPL Food, a meat packing and food manufacturing company, is opening a new facility and creating 100 new jobs.

Ball Ground: Timken is expanding its industrial and automotive application bearing plant and creating 15 new jobs.

Barnesville: Custom packaging and power generation assembler Enercon/Enpower is creating 30 new jobs.

Blairsville: Cott Beverages is starting a new bottled water facility and creating 35 new jobs.

Cedartown: HON Industries is expanding its office furniture manufacturing facility and creating 32 new jobs.

Columbus: Cessna Aircraft, a Textron Company, is expanding single-engine aircraft component operations and adding 110 new jobs.

Duluth: Spectral Response Inc. is expanding its manufacturing facility and increasing the quantity and variety of electronic circuit boards it makes and creating 40 new jobs.

Griffin: Trident Industries, a conversion bus maker, opened a new facility and will create approximately 65 new jobs.

Hartwell: TI Automotive is starting a new manufacturing plant that will produce automotive gas tanks and will create 100 new jobs.

LaGrange: Kimberly Clark is rebuilding a major production line, resulting in retraining for approximately 35 employees, and implementing a new corporate-wide SAP system.

Lakeland: Wausau Homes Inc., builder of modular homes, is starting up a new operation and creating 100 new jobs.

Lawrenceville: WIKA Instrument Corporation is expanding pressure and temperature measurement instrument production operations and creating 30 new jobs.

Lincolnton: Top Grill Imports, a manufacturer of outdoor gas grills, is opening a new facility and creating 20 new jobs.

Map of Georgia showing company locations

McDonough: Kuehne and Nagel is opening a new tire distribution center and creating 25 new jobs.

Milledgeville: Vought Aircraft Industries Inc., a manufacturer of aircraft components, is expanding and adding 150 jobs.

Montezuma: Flint River Foods is adding a canning operation to its existing flash freezing operation and creating 50 new jobs.

Savannah: Clothing distributor CitiTrends Inc. is expanding operations and creating 20 new jobs.

Savannah: Dollar Tree Stores Inc. is expanding distribution center operations and creating 20 new jobs.

Savannah: WellPoint Inc., which is affiliated with the nation’s largest health insurance company and is the parent company of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, is opening a call support center for its state-sponsored programs and creating 200 new jobs.

Swainsboro: Outland Industries, a manufacturer of diverse apparel, is expanding operations and adding 70 jobs.

Sylvania: Cardboard pallet manufacturer PalletKraft is opening a new facility and creating 20 new jobs.

Tallapoosa: Honda is building a new transmission plant that will employ approximately 400 employees.

Thomasville: American Fresh Foods LP broke ground for a new ground beef products facility that will create 100 new jobs.

Valdosta: Blowfish Plastics, an industry that manufactures plastic bottles for Starbucks and McDonald’s, is creating 30 new jobs.

Washington: WIN-MFG is starting a new manufacturing facility of nonwovens and creating 35 new jobs.



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