Ryder to add 600 jobs in $16.5M expansion - Columbia Daily Herald
Ryder Supply Chain Solutions announced Tuesday it will be investing $16. 5 million to expand its presence in Spring Hill, a move that is slated to add more than 600 new jobs. The company will enlarge its transportation, kitting and assembly operations by doubling its warehousing space from 300,000 square feet to 600,000. The transportation, logistics and supply company is set to increase employment from 200 workers to... spokeswoman Cindy Haas declined to name who the company would be supplying but said its Spring Hill location is dedicated to a manufacturing customer. Ryder takes individual auto parts that will go on GM vehicles, puts them into kits and sequences to help enhance the timeline for making vehicles via line production, Evans said. “This is a tremendous amount of new jobs coming to Spring Hill and Maury County,” Maury County Chamber and Economic Alliance President Wil Evans said. “While we did see many announcements last year, within the last 18 months, this is by far the largest single number of jobs announced by one project publicly. The next-generation Cadillac SRX crossover is one, but the other has not been named. Source: columbiadailyherald.com