Posted on 06/09/2018 4:37:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
EOS says in six to nine months the manufacturing plant will be in full production.
Electro Optic Systems or EOS is an Australian company that's coming to the Rocket City.
The company is based out of Australia but is now opening a United States Headquarters in Huntsville.
The building will produce products of the company for the defense industry.
Their United States President who has been a part of the defense industry in Huntsville for years told WAAY 31 about the products they will be manufacturing.
"What you can do with this system is you can stay in the vehicle, and as a result not only can you fire from some safe area but you're also in a position where you can see so much better and so much farther. We can identify targets 10 kilometers out," Philip Coker, President of EOS Defense Systems USA.
Coker explained to me the remote weapon system the company creates helps soldiers do their jobs safely.
They will also work on producing items for the aerospace industry.
Right now, the focus is on getting their manufacturing plant ready and hiring 200 employees.
According to the City of Huntsville, the 200 employees will bring at least 11.4 million dollars to the area.
In the meantime, they'll be searching for employees, Coker told us they want to hire veterans. Some of them will make their way to Australia for training.
"When they start their production here they need people who have experience on the assembly line to train the others, so it is essentially training the others," said Mike Ward with the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce.
Ward told us he believes about 10 people will be sent to Australia for about two weeks, and their training will be paid for by the state of Alabama.
EOS says in six to nine months the manufacturing plant will be in full production.
and training will paid for by the state and those 10 will be sent to Australia for training? That’s a sweet deal.
More crumbs, per Nancy Pelosi, I’m sure.
My half-brother flew to Australia on a lark because he’d always wanted to go. Enjoyed it immensely.
Ping to the state list.
I am back in the Loveliest Village for a while. I will try to get more prompt on pinging the state. If someone else would like to volunteer to take this list over, I am not at all too proud to let you.
I did the Australia ‘tour’ in 2016. Just a great place to visit and virtually everyone you bump into has some character or charm attached to them. Bumped into a fair number of immigrants who came in the 70s and 80s...all firmly Australian and middle-class ‘winners’.
"Austal USA is the American branch of operations for Australian shipbuilder Austal. The facility, based on Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama employed more than 3,100 workers in early 2012, and has since grown to a little over 4,000 employees and contractors as of 2016.[1][2][3]"
We here in Jacksonville continue to clean up after the tornadoes a couple of months ago. Since the kids have gone home from Jax State for the summer, the repairs can continue on the school buildings and completion of the baseball stadium. The basketball facility is getting a new roof and new floor after it was destroyed. What we lost that cannot be immediately replaced are the thousands of trees that were blown down. Everywhere is open where trees once stood. We had the large one back in April 27th of what was it, 2012? Then this one. We are too close to the target zone for these twisters!!!
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