One company is helping to create thousands of Atlanta manufacturing jobs.

NCR Corp., which is a Fortune 500 company, recently announced its plan to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dayton, Ohio to Duluth, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. That move will create 1,250 jobs in the Atlanta metro area and more than 2,100 jobs throughout the state during the next five years, according to an article by The Associated Press.

NCR also said it plans to establish a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Columbus, Ga. That plant alone will create an additional 870 jobs during the next five years. The company is the world’s leading provider of ATMs and also makes cash registers and airline check-in kiosks. The company employs 23,000 workers throughout the world.

With any luck, the new jobs will put some life back into the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta area’s dying manufacturing industry. That industry employed 150,900 workers during April, according to the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down from 153,000 workers during March and an 11.3 percent decrease from last year.

And while the area’s unemployment rate remained at 9.1 percent from March to April, the local economy is still suffering. The are had a total non-farm employment of 2,322,100 workers during April, down from 2,323,800 workers during March and a 5.1 percent decrease from last year.

As a whole, Georgia’s manufacturing industry employed 364,700 workers during April, down from 370,500 workers during March and a 12.2 percent decrease from last year. The state’s unemployment rate increased from 9.2 percent to 9.3 percent during April. Georgia had a total non-farm employment of 3,936,900 workers during April, down from 3,955,400 workers during March and a 4.7 percent decrease from last year.

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