Howmet Corp. intends to invest up to $107.5 million to develop a new advanced manufacturing plant and offices in Whitehall.
The plant would produce ceramic cores that are used in the production of air-cooling passages inside airfoil products for jet aircraft engines. The project would create 300 new jobs in Muskegon County that pay an average $29.41 an hour, plus benefits.
Howmet once based ceramic core production in Muskegon County many years ago and the project “marks a return of that production line back to Whitehall after its departure decades ago,” according to a memo from Michigan Economic Development Corp. staff to the Michigan Strategic Fund board…