Cummins Inc. said Friday it plans to invest about $100 million to expand its high-horsepower engine plant in Seymour, Ind., to add more lines of clean-diesel and natural gas engines in the future.
The expansion will add about 200 engineering and manufacturing jobs in the next five years at the plant, which now employs about 450 people, the engine maker said in a statement.
Cummins also said it changed the name of the facility to the Seymour Engine Plant, from the former Cummins Industrial Center, saying the new name was “consistent with [its] practice at many of its major engine manufacturing locations elsewhere.”
“Our high-horsepower business continues to grow in importance,” Tom Linebarger, Cummins’ president and chief operating officer, said in a statement.
“This facility and product line expansion will allow us to maintain our technology leadership and strong product portfolio. Cummins will continue to provide leadership as our customers face ever more challenging worldwide emissions regulations,” he said.
The plant opened in 1976 and is currently manufactures V903, K19, QSK19 and QST30 diesel and natural gas engines.
Preparations for the technical center expansion are scheduled to begin immediately, and construction is expected to be complete by mid-2011, the company said.
