GREENVILLE, S.C. - 12/20/2010
South Carolina Charities, Inc., the host organization of the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation golf tournament, has selected 26 South Carolina and North Carolina charities to benefit from the 2011 golf tournament.The 26 charities that will have the opportunity to earn funds from the tournament are: 100 Black Men of the Upstate, A [...]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - 10/26/2010
Rising high school seniors in Greenville and Spartanburg Counties, with an interest in the real world applications of mathematics, statistics, physics, business and manufacturing improvement processes, are invited to apply to the two-week USC Upstate/BMW Manufacturing Academic Outreach Camp, to be held June 13-17 and June 20-24, 2011. The camp will be held at USC [...]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - 10/20/2010
In a program to celebrate the opening of the new 1.2 million square feet BMW manufacturing facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina, BMW Group Chairman Dr.-Ing. Norbert Reithofer announced the plant expansion completes the company’s one billion US dollar investment in the U.S. market between 2008 and 2010. “The U.S. will remain the world’s largest premium [...]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - 10/11/2010
BMW Manufacturing Co. announced today that it is implementing a new alternative fuel platform to use Hydrogen Fuel Cells to power their material handling equipment. Hydrogen fuel cell-powered forklifts, tuggers and stackers will be used in BMW’s new assembly hall that produces the new BMW X3 Sports Activity Vehicle®.Fuel cells take stored chemical energy, such [...]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - 10/04/2010
As BMW Manufacturing in South Carolina prepares for the global launch of the new BMW X3, it announced today another hiring initiative for 600 more contingent associates bringing the total number of jobs announced in the past 3 months to 1,600. The need for additional workers at the South Carolina plant is driven by continued [...]