72 jobs some of those workers will be offered positions elsewhere spokeswoman bethany sherman saidthe company is adding more than 1000 new jobs in the united states sherman saidother panel participants engaged in offshoring include caterpillar which is laying off 712 workers in the american south and midwest and moving the work to china mexico italy france and germany as it weathers the largest sales slump in its history 3m which is eliminating 130 jobs in suburban cincinnati and moving production to mexico timken co which is laying off 120 people at a ballbearing plant in tennessee due to declining demand and moving the work to other plants in the united states and abroadto stay strong and grow jobs in the united states we must be able to compete and win where our customers need us today and in the future timken spokeswoman nicole disalvo saida caterpillar spokesman said it was simultaneously creating 400 new manufacturing jobs elsewhere in the united states 3m said it had added more than 2000 us manufacturing jobs over the last five years reporting by andy sullivan editing by kevin drawbaugh and ross colvin