TOKYO, JAPAN-Japanese
automakers will idle more plants for at least the next few days as businesses
voluntarily limit electricity consumption in the wake of last Friday's
earthquake and tsunami. It was too soon to say whether production in North America might be disrupted because of a delay in
parts. MORE
PALMDALE, CA-Northrop Grumman Corp. has started using a new assembly line here for making the fuselage of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The assembly line is based on the automated systems used by automakers. MORE
GALESBURG, IL-Sometime in May, the first tankless water heaters are expected to roll off the assembly line at Intellihot Green Technologies new factory here. MORE
KANSAS CITY, KS-The General Motors Fairfax plant here is back in operation after an evacuation because of a novelty toy that looked like a hand grenade, police said. MORE
NEW YORK, NY-According
to United Nations data, the U.S.
is still the largest manufacturing country in the world. In 2009, American
manufacturing output (in real terms) was nearly $2.2 trillion. That's about 45
percent larger than China's,
at just under $1.5 trillion. So why do so many Americans think the U.S. doesn't
make anything anymore?
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DEARBORN, MI-Ford Motor Co.
said it would team up with DTE Energy to install solar panels at a factory in Wayne, MI.
The Michigan assembly
plant, where the Ford Focus is made, will have the capacity to generate 500
kilowatts of power with its solar panels. MORE
CHATTANOOGA,
TN- What does snapping together
toy trucks have to do with building the Passat mid-size family sedan? New hires
at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Hamilton
County find out when they attend Volkswagen Academy.
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TOKYO, JAPAN-Leading automakers here are
suspending production at their domestic plants on Monday as they assess the
condition of their factories and parts suppliers after Friday's devastating
earthquake and tsunami. They did not say when they would resume production.
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DETROIT-Whirlpool is investing $1 billion in its U.S. footprint, chairman and CEO Jeff Fettig told the Detroit Economic Club here yesterday. Whirlpool is “very confident in the future of U.S. manufacturing” and hopes to increase its revenue 33 percent over the next three years to $24 billion, he said. MORE