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Cummins to Spend $580 Million on North Carolina Engine Plant | Transport Topics
The investment at Rocky Mount will involve installing new manufacturing equipment and upgrading the assembly line for next-generation products. (Cummins Inc.)
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Cummins Inc. plans to spend $580 million on its Rocky Mount Engine Plant in North Carolina, much of it as part of the company’s decarbonization push, it said.
Columbus, Ind.-based Cummins said the spending would add about 80 jobs at the plant, on top of the existing 2,000. The company expects the funds to enhance plans to achieve zero emissions across its products as part of an initiative known as Destination Zero.
The investment at Rocky Mount will involve installing new manufacturing equipment and upgrading the assembly line for next-generation products, it said.
Cummins’ spending will support the plant’s focus on the medium-duty on- and off-highway business, a spokeswoman said Jan. 12. The plant currently produces 4.5-liter, 6.7-liter and 9-liter engines for the medium-duty market, the spokeswoman said in an email.
Some of Cummins’ next-generation engines to be launched in the coming years may shift in their displacement, but will stay in that range, she added.
Projects started under the program will be completed by 2027, she said.
Rocky Mount will continue to produce diesel and natural gas engines, but its capabilities will be expanded when it comes to gasoline and propane engines as part of Destination Zero, the spokeswoman said.
Additional alternative fuel options will be explored and added at the plant as customer demand develops, she added.
Cummins said the spending would add about 80 jobs at the plant, on top of the existing 2,000. (Cummins Inc.)
“We are excited to be driving continued growth within Nash County and creating jobs that rely on high-caliber technology for the future,” said Steve Pinkston, Rocky Mount plant manager. “Cummins is focused on Destination Zero and getting there as quickly as possible.”
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Destination Zero involves fuel-agnostic engine platforms that feature a series of engine versions derived from a common base engine. The design approach is applied across the engines including the B6.7 and the X15, plus a new 10-liter portfolio called the X10.
Cummins began testing its natural gas-powered X15N engine with U.S. customers in May 2023, a major step forward for its largest gas-powered powertrain in North America.
The range of a Class 8 truck with an X15N is at least 750 miles. The X15N can use renewable natural gas: biomethane, or the cleaned-up gaseous product of the decomposition of organic matter. And the X15 platform is set to be available for use of hydrogen by 2027.
To facilitate its low-carbon advances, Cummins in May 2023 announced plans to spend $1 billion on manufacturing plant upgrades.
Operations at Rocky Mount began in 1983 at what started out as a joint venture with Case named Consolidated Diesel Co. The Rocky Mount facility has produced over 5 million engines, at least 1 million more than any other Cummins engine facility.
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Virginia 3, North Carolina 0 | First Quarter
Virginia 3, North Carolina 0 | Q1 8:19
After a faceoff win by Henry Metz, Brendan Millon finds Truitt Sunderland to give the Hoos a 3-0 lead. Timeout North Carolina.
Virginia 2, North Carolina 0 | Q1 9:00
Brendan Millon gets the scoring started for the Cavaliers with a question mark style goal. On the defensive end, Jake Marek opens the game with three early saves with his third save setting up a transition goal by Tommy Snyder.
Virginia vs North Carolina pregame notes
UVA owns a 59-33 advantage since the series began in 1938.
The 59 wins are UVA’s most against any opponent in program history (followed by 51 against Duke).
In Chapel Hill last year, the Tar Heels defeated the Cavaliers 18-9, snapping UVA’s six-game series win streak.
UVA has won nine of the last 11 meetings, dating back to 2018.
The Hoos have won the last two meetings with Carolina at Klöckner Stadium, 11-4 in 2022 and 14-6 in 2024.
The Tar Heels’ four goals in 2022 marked the fewest goals in a game under Joe Breschi, who was named UNC’s head coach in 2006.
The last time the Tar Heels knocked off the Cavaliers at Klöckner was a 16-13 decision during the first of three games between the two teams in 2021.
Later that year, UVA claimed back-to-back meetings against the Heels, including in the NCAA semifinals on the way to capturing the 2021 national title over Maryland.
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HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Fire crews are responding to a brush fire near Howard Gap Road in Hendersonville on Friday evening.
The fire is across the street from the Ebenezer Baptist Church and near the Highlands Square Shopping Center.
Henderson County Fire Marshal Glen Gillette said crews are fighting “blowdown from Helene.”
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Around 11 p.m., the fire appears larger than it did an hour ago because crews are backburning, which refers to using fire to help control the wildfire.
Dana Fire Department Chief Jimmy Womack said that what was a 3-acre fire an hour ago will be an 8-acre fire due to back burning. He said the fire is 80% contained.
Womack said the cause of the fire is unknown, but one of the conditions contributing to the blaze is the Helene blowdown.
“There’s a lot of blowdown in these woods behind us. That’s what creates most of the problem,” said Womack.
Womack said there has been no property damage and no injuries have been reported for this fire in the woods that 24 personnel are fighting. They got the call to arrive at 6:05 p.m.
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Dana Fire and Rescue and Henderson County Fire Department are supporting the U.S. Forest Service with this fire.
Glen said no structures are threatened at this time and Howard Gap Road is closed.
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