Approximately 2,500 manufacturers have one or more facilitites located in Mississippi.
- Alliant Techsystems – Iuka : This premier aerospace and defense company manufactures composites for rockets and aircraft.
- American Eurocopter – Columbus :The world’s most technologically advanced helicopters for U.S. civilian, law enforcement, military, homeland defense and other markets.
- Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. – Columbus : Designs and builds robotic aircraft and other advanced aerospace
vehicles for scientific and military applications. - Batesville Casket Co. – Batesville & Vicksburg : This premier casket manufacturer has two operations in Mississippi: A rough mill facility in Vicksburg processes timber into lumber for making solid wood caskets in Batesville.
- Baxter Healthcare – Cleveland : Develops, manufactures and markets products that save and sustain the lives of people with hemophilia, immune disorders, infectious diseases, kidney disease, trauma and other chronic and acute medical conditions.
- Caterpillar, Inc. – Corinth, Booneville, & Oxford : The world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines produces engines and engine components, and couplings for hydraulic hoses used in its earth-moving equipment.
- Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. – Clarksdale, Tupelo : This global company manufactures inner tubes and tires for passenger cars and light trucks.
- Day-Brite Lighting – Tupelo : Possibly the most diverse manufacturer of lighting fixtures for commercial and industrial applications in the world.
- Eaton Aerospace, Vickers Fluid Power – Jackson : Leading global supplier of hydraulic power generation components and systems for aerospace, marine and defense vehicles.
- Ferson Optics, Inc. – Ocean Springs : Ferson Optics is an industry leader in the manufacture of precision optical components, including lenses, windows, filters, prisms, cylinders, domes, and assemblies.
- GE Batesville Composites Operation – Batesville : Advanced composite engine components, which are unique in the aviation industry, are produced by GE Aviation, a General Electric Company business unit and world-leading producer of jet engines.
- Hybrid Plastics, Inc. – Hattiesburg : Nanostructured Chemical Technology, foundational in nature and possesses broad utility within the consumer products, aerospace, biological, pharmaceutical, agricultural, transportation, and construction industries.
- International Paper Co. Vicksburg : Unbleached kraft linerboard used by corrugators, laminators and sheet
feeders in numerous packaging applications all over the world. - Lane Home Furnishings – Tupelo : Wood and upholstered furniture made by the largest manufacturer of reclining furniture in the world.
- Laurel Machine and Foundry – Laurel : Mississippi’s oldest family-owned manufacturer produces custom machine steel work.
- La-Z-Boy – Newton : Wood and upholstered furniture from one of the world’s leading residential furniture producers.
- Lockheed Martin Aerospace Co. – Meridian : Advanced technology systems for the U.S. Department of Defense.
- McNeely Plastics – Clinton : Flexible, plastic packaging (film and bags) for the poultry, catfish, and furniture industries.
- Miltec Corp. – Iuka : Design, development, integration and test capabilities in the areas of missiles, space, sensors and simulation.
- Navistar International Corp. – West Point : Mine-resistant, ambush protected vehicles for the military.
- Nissan North America – Canton : Quest, Armada, Titan (King Cab, Crew Cab), Infiniti QX56 and Altima vehicles.
- Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding – Pascagoula : Builds, overhauls and repairs ships for the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard and world navies.
- Olin Corp., Winchester Division – Oxford : Rimfire ammunition and P.A.T. (Power Actuated Tools).
- Peavey Electronics – Meridian : One of the world’s largest manufacturers of musical
instruments and professional sound equipment. - PFG Precision Optics – Ocean Springs : Precision optical components, coatings and assemblies for analytical, defense, industrial and commercial uses.
- Pioneer Aerospace Corp. – Columbia : Parachutes and ancillary equipment used by the military.
- Primos Hunting Calls – Flora : This leader in the hunting industry manufactures game calls for turkey, deer, elk, waterfowl and predator.
- Ratheon Company — Space & Airborne System – Forest : Global company designs and produces radar and other sensor systems for a variety of military programs.
- Roll Form Group – Iuka : Steel sheeting and piling produced at the largest cold roll mill in North America.
- Rolls Royce Naval Marine Pascagoula : Marine propellers for the U.S. Navy and the commercial market.
- Seemann Composites – Gulfport : High performance resins using unique resin transfer molding process known as SCRIMP.
- Sheldon Laboratory Systems, Inc. – Crystal Springs : Premier manufacturer and supplier of science equipment and fixtures for school science labs.
- Taylor Machine Works – Louisville : Forklift trucks with lift capacities from 16,000 to 120,000 pounds.
- THERMO-KOOL, Mid-South Industries, Inc. – Laurel : Custom walk-in coolers and freezers for the foodservice industry.
- Thermo-Probe – Jackson : Thermometers used in oil storage and trade and made to specification.
- Toyota Motor – Blue Springs : Toyota Motor Corporation’s 10th U. S. production facility, located in Blue Springs, Miss., started production of the Toyota Corolla in November 2011. This facility will produce 2,000 direct jobs once the plant is fully operational and another 4,900 indirect jobs within five years of the plant’s opening. The company will produce 150,000 vehicles per year at the Blue Springs site.
- Trinity Yachts – Gulfport : One of the world’s elite builders of custom superyachts.
- Triton Systems of Delaware – Long Beach : ATM machines
- Viking Range Corp. – Greenville : Professional and commercial-type kitchen appliances for the home.
- Weyerhaeuser – Columbus : Bleached southern softwood kraft pulp for fluff, papergrade and specialty applications.
- World Class Athletic Surfaces – Leland : Athletic field marking paints, grass dyes and team logo field stencils for athletic fields worldwide.