Showing posts with label Seguin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seguin. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Caterpillar breaks ground in Seguin

From News 8 Austin, January 21, 2009...

What will soon be the site of a new major manufacturing plant is not much more than dirt and weeds now. But, the barren land will shortly be transformed into the booming financial epicenter for the City of Seguin.

Seguin Mayor Betty Ann Matthies said it's the biggest thing to ever happen to the tiny town.

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Caterpillar announcement surprised Seguin residents

From statesman, December 20, 2008...

As Tom Morris read articles from Friday's newspapers by the faint afternoon light that crept into The Oak, a nearly three-quarters-of-a-century-old bar, he said he hoped someone would open a nice steakhouse after Caterpillar opens its new facility here.

Local officials seemed to surprise almost everyone in this city of about 25,000 when they announced Thursday that they had reached an agreement with Caterpillar Inc. to bring its main engine manufacturing facilities — and about 1,400 jobs — to Seguin, which is about 30 miles northeast of San Antonio and about 50 miles south of Austin.

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Caterpillar is talk of town in Seguin

From News 8 Austin, December 19, 2008...

Jan Nowotny has been making breakfast and lunch at the Creekside Grill for the past eight years. It's a place for small town talk and good eats.

"We love what we do and we put our love into our cooking," she said.

The topic of conversation Friday at the diner was Caterpillar's plan to move in to Seguin, jumpstarting the city's economy.

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Caterpillar consolidating main assembly plant in Seguin

From Austin Business Journal, December 19, 2008...

Caterpillar Inc. is moving its global assembly, test and paint facilities to a Central Texas community and bringing more than 1,400 jobs with it.

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Caterpillar moving jobs to Seguin

From News 8 Austin, December 18, 2008...

Caterpillar Inc. is moving one of its main assembly and paint facilities to Texas, creating more than 1,400 jobs in Seguin.

Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Speaker Tom Craddick made the announcement Thursday. The construction equipment maker will get a state investment of $10 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund.

Caterpillar, based in Peoria, Ill., plans to consolidate and move a manufacturing and testing facility to Seguin from Illinois and South Carolina.

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