CAT offered me a job in 1966. I asked them what they had west of the Mississippi? They said “nothing”. I told them thanx anyway but I wasn’t interested in the dumbass zone. Putting something in Texas might help them thataway. Only took six decades to dawn on them.
This move is a pretty big deal. When will they begin to move more mfg out of Peoria? Same goes for John Deere. They have several facilities in Moline and Rock Island. They could just as easily move across the river to Iowa.
Caterpillar and John Deere are really great companies. Any state or community would be lucky to have them.