By Associated Press
Mobile, AL – The ThyssenKrupp steel plant being built in southwest Alabama has drawn more than 8-thousand-700 job seekers in a recent recruitment period that ended Friday.
Officials with Alabama Industrial Development Training said at least 4,000 applications were received in the past week.
AIDT, which will provide pre-employment training, said it expects to hold its first training classes in March. The German-based company could begin hiring its first workers by early summer.
Construction got underway in November on the massive $3.7 billion plant at Calvert on the border of Mobile and Washington counties.
Operations could begin in 2010, creating up to 2,700 jobs.
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