Columbus engine maker Cummins Inc. will idle at least 400 workers at a manufacturing facility in Jamestown, N.Y., because
of a change in emission standards that will cut production from 500 engines a day to 100.
Cummins Inc. said profit for its fiscal third quarter fell 59 percent and sales dropped by 31 percent compared to the same
period last year, though the company said its profitability and cash position improved from the second quarter.
Enginemaker Cummins Inc. is temporarily adding a second production shift at its MidRange Engine Plant south of Columbus, recalling
as many as 270 workers who had been laid off or transferred to other facilities when it was idled in May.
Columbus-based Cummins Inc. is recalling 438 hourly workers, including 340 at its Midrange Engine Plant in Walesboro.
Cummins Inc.’s stock jumped more than 6 percent in morning trading after its quarterly results
beat analyst estimates.
Cummins Inc. is battling its insurers in court, saying they’re refusing to pay
most of the company’s $381 million in claims stemming from the flood that immersed its southern Indiana
facilities a year ago.
Less than a decade ago, diesel engines were viewed as loud pollution machines punching holes in the ozone. Now their cleaner,
quieter cousins are powering a resurgent Cummins Inc.
Little more than six months after Theodore M. “Tim” Solso took the CEO reins at Columbus, Ind.-based Cummins Inc. from James Henderson in January 2000, Cummins was slammed by “the deepest and longest recession in the history of the company.” Those days are ancient history.
