Howard Industries, Inc. celebrated the grand opening and ribbon-cutting for its newest facility in Quitman, MS, last Friday, November 3, 2023.
The event was attended by Howard Industries. Inc. leadership including CEO, Michael Howard; President, Cyndi Howard McCoy: and Chairman of the Board and Founder, Billy Howard, Sr. and joined by Governor Tate Reeves, Mayor Steve Watkins, State Representative Troy Smith, the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, the Quitman Board of Alderman, and many other local dignitaries.
The ceremony consisted of speeches by Howard CEO, Michael Howard and Governor Tate Reeves, followed by tours of the new facility and a luncheon.
Governor Tate Reeves, who is looking forward to the addition of new jobs in the state of Mississippi, thanked Howard Industries for “investing not only a whole lot of capital but also their life’s work in growing Mississippi. They have decided to invest in our people and growing our state.”
The new plant allows Howard to expand into a new and broader labor pool. Currently sixty peopled are employed at the Quitman Facility with plans to hire up to 200 more jobs in the coming months.
The 180,000-square-foot facility will focus on producing transformer cores made of amorphous metal. The alloy of amorphous metal exhibits a unique molecular arrangement that is random rather than organized, like the crystalline structure of traditional core steel.
The unique molecular structure of amorphous metal allows cores to be more readily magnetized and demagnetized when energized, which results in significantly lower energy losses.
Company CEO Michael Howard looks forward to the new plant, he stated that “We are excited to be in Quitman, Mississippi… we have a lot of work to be done, and a lot more people to hire.”
