Caterpillar to add 300 jobs in Decatur, East PeoriaCaterpillar is expecting to add 300 jobs in Illinois as it expands its manufacturing facilities in Decatur and East Peoria to support growing mining industries around the world, the company said...
While Caterpillar raised its revenue and earnings guidance for this year, it also boosted its projection for restructuring charges to close production lines in Belgium and Aurora, Ill., near Chicago. Some of those Aurora jobs will move to Decatur, Ill., and others to North Little Rock, Ark....
bought the abandoned but relatively new plant of a tractor company that had failed. The new Peoria, Illinois, location offered Holt everything he needed in a manufacturing center, and despite the need to pour capital into retooling the plant, it proved so profitable...