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ENGINE MAKERS * USA: Cummins'
* New York - Cummins sets goal of 500 engines a day at Jamestown Plant
Lakewood,NY,USA -Transport Topics, by Jonathan S. Reiskin -11 August 2014: -- Independent engine maker Cummins Inc. is boosting its annual rate of investment in its 40-year-old Jamestown Engine Plant here by more than 50%, with the goal of hitting 500 engines a day, most of them ISX15s... Once a metal-fabrication facility for large filing cabinets, Cummins started JEP in August 1974. Five years later, the company made its first engine there, a 10-liter model. In 2002 and 2003 the company consolidated its heavy-duty production at JEP, a 1 million-square-foot facility that employs about 1,500 — more than any other private employer in Chautauqua County, New York... The ISX15 is the company’s best seller for diesel truck engines, with most of them going to Kenworth Trucks, Navistar International and Peterbilt Motors. While the ISX12 has lost ground to the truck maker’s in-house models, JEP also is home to the Cummins Westport ISX12 G, a natural-gas power plant, which Crompton said is of growing importance for Cummins...
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