Jackson County Industrial Development Corporation (JCIDC) on LinkedIn: This is the fourth and final week of the Seymour High School, Seymour, IN… (2024)

Jobs for America's Graduates is now at all four of Jackson County's public high schools: Brownstown Central, Crothersville, Medora and Seymour. It's the only county in the state to achieve that.

#TriviaTuesdayIn total, there are nine locations in the global network of Nippon Steel Corp., which includes overseas business of electric resistance welded pipe for automotive applications.Nippon Steel Pipe America Inc. was founded as Seymour Tubing Inc. in March 1989. The next month, there was a groundbreaking for the facility near the entrance to the Eastside Industrial Park. In March 1990, production began in cold draw and on cutting and chamfering equipment and processes. A year later, a high frequency welding mill was added, and the cutting and chamfering processes and capacity were expanded. Then in March 1993, a second HFW mill began operation, and in April 1995, bush cutting and chamfering processes and capacity were expanded. In the late 1990s, a third HFW mill and a bush forming department were added.Seymour Tubing Inc. of Dunlap, Tennessee, was established and opened in November 2000, and it was closed and consolidated into the Seymour facility during the economic downturn of 2008 and 2009.An expansion project took place from July 2012 to July 2013, including havens and HFW Mill 2 being relocated to the new addition and NFW Mill 4 being relocated to Mill 2's former location.In April 2019, the name changed from Seymour Tubing Inc. to Nippon Steel Pipe America Inc.The company is a material supplier of various sizes and shapes of carbon and stainless steel tubing to the automotive industry. While end consumers of the tubing are many and include the most popular automobile brands in the world, NSPA tubing has even more direct original equipment manufacturer customers who form and incorporate the tubing into products that are among the best made shock absorbers, struts, exhaust systems, door impact beams, instrument panel beams, steering and suspension systems and more. Around 1% of the company's tubing is used in nonautomotive applications.Source: nipponsteelpipeamerica.com

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We are excited to offer this opportunity to the community and for our local employers.The participating companies will be added to the flyer next week. If your company would like to participate, email zachspicer@jcidc.com.

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#ManufacturingMonday The company was founded in 1872 with its earliest products as snaths, scythes and wagon wheel spokes. In the early 20th century, it acquired Hall Manufacturing to expand the digger and auger product lines.During World War II, the company joined the war effort by manufacturing starter cartridges for airplanes, magazines for small arms and wooden wheelbarrows. It also expanded the product line to include hog rings and specialized agricultural tools.By 1950, it launched fireplace products and a snow sled for children, the Flying Cloud. From there to the 1990s, the company continued to expand into digging and long-handled tools.In 2013, the company switched names from Seymour Manufacturing to Seymour Midwest.Along with being toolmakers, the company makes contoured precision lathe-turned ash and hickory handles. Products are sold around the world.Source: seymourmidwest.com

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What they had to say ... on Vital Farms choosing Seymour to expand its supply chain with a second world-class egg washing and packing facility.The 72-acre future home of Egg Central Station Seymour will build upon key successes from the brand’s first facility in Springfield, Missouri. The new facility will enable Vital Farms to continue growing its pasture-raised egg business, create 150-plus jobs for the Seymour community in its first phase and is expected to help generate more than $350 million in additional revenue for the brand as it pushes to a 2027 target of $1 billion in company revenues.President and CEO Russell Diez-Canseco said Vital Farms is the second biggest egg brand in America, has partners and consumers all over the country and has products in 24,000 stores. "We talk a lot about stakeholders, and this is a company that was founded with the idea that we should be purpose-led and that we should focus on long-term benefits of stakeholders and not just shareholders," he said. The biggest distinction is it's not transactional, he said. "When we go talk to new prospective customers, hire someone and enter new community, it's not about 'What can we get from this person?' 'What can we get from this place?' It's about 'How can we kind of grow the pie together to help create better outcomes for all of us?'" he said.That shows up in the company's growth."We're here because we are growing so darn fast that we need even more capacity to pack eggs," Diez-Canseco said of expanding to Seymour. "We'll be well over $500 million in revenue this year. I believe we will be well over $1 billion in revenue in 2027. We actually need a building here in Seymour to open in 2026 or else we're capped. It's a scary problem to have. It's an exciting problem to have."After a multistate search, company officials found Seymour to be the best fit for their second location. Vital Farms bought enough land in Seymour to expand over time as the company did in Springfield. The new site will have the capacity to support 165 farms. "I'm excited about this place," Diez-Canseco said. "I've got a bunch of great people who work every day to get to a little bit of a better place based on what's going on for us in the world, and that's all I can ask for is transparency and honesty and a hard day's work, so I think this is a great place."

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