Photos: A look inside Lincoln's growing Kawasaki plant
Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing is planning a $200 million expansion of its plant in Lincoln. Photographer Gwyneth Roberts provides a look at the Jet Skis, UTVs and rail cars in production.
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A Jet Ski advances on the assembly line at Kawasaki's plant in Lincoln.
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Utility vehicles roll down the assembly line at Kawasaki on Monday. The Lincoln plant announced a $200 million expansion focused on its consumer products division and rail car operations.
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Welders put together vehicle frames on Monday at Kawasaki in Lincoln.
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Frames for utility vehicles stretch down an assembly line in 2021 at Kawasaki's plant in Lincoln.
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Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing is planning a $200 million expansion of the company's operations in northwest Lincoln.
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Kawasaki plans to expand its Lincoln operations, which include building rail cars for New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority.
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A Kawasaki employee unloads cut pipes in 2021.
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A Kawasaki employee applies decals to a utility vehicle on the Lincoln plant's assembly line in July. Like many other businesses in the state, Kawasaki's plans to expand are largely dependent on finding more people to fill available jobs.
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Rail cars sit outside the function test building on Monday at Kawasaki's plant in Lincoln.
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Finished vehicles are stacked in a warehouse at Kawasaki's plant in Lincoln.
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A robotic welder works on Monday at Kawasaki in Lincoln.
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Frames for UTVs stretch down an assembly line on Monday at Kawasaki in Lincoln.
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Kawasaki will expand its Lincoln operations, which include building rail cars for New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority.
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A look inside a nearly completed rail car manufactured at Kawasaki's plant in Lincoln.
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Kawasaki's rail car division has continued to grow in Lincoln.
The union also takes issue with BNSF’s new “HiViz” attendance policy. "The attempt is to keep people from taking a day off, and it’s working,” a union leader said. “It’s also driving people out of the industry.”
The Lincoln company said it has plenty of employees and delays in sending rail cars to New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority are due mostly to supply chain issues.
A Kawasaki-made rail car and Virtual Incision's MIRA Surgical Robot are among 16 Nebraska products going head-to-head in the first-ever contest.
New York City Transit Authority's R211 Rail Car, built at Kawasaki's rail car plant in Lincoln, beat out the Pivot Walker made by Chief Fabrication in Grand Island.
Schneider Electric, which makes Square D circuit breakers and other products at its plant at 1717 Center Park Road, said it will spend $23 million to modernize the 50-year-old facility.
Rather than shutting down a struggling Behlen Mfg. or auctioning it off, Raimondo teamed with three other managers in 1984 to buy the Columbus business themselves.
Kawasaki has purchased its first-ever Super Bowl ad spot to promote the Ridge, a new utility vehicle with pickup truck-like features that's made at its Lincoln plant.
