BELVIDERE, IL—The tornado that touched down at an industrial park in Windsor, ON, last week has temporarily halted vehicle production at FCA’s assembly plant here. The plant receives parts from a Windsor supplier, which was severely damaged by the tornado.
TOLEDO, OH—FCA US will invest more than $1 billion in its assembly plants in Illinois and Ohio to retool them to increase production of the Jeep Cherokee and Wrangler.
TOKYO—Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will shut its only North American assembly plant, in Normal, IL, by November if it can’t find a buyer for the factory, and will soon start shipping tooling back to Japan.
TROY, IL—As Caterpillar considers moving 230 jobs to Mexico from its manufacturing plant here, local leaders are trying to determine what can be done to keep the work in town.
ROCHELLE, IL—Nippon Sharyo USA has completed its rail car assembly plant here and will hire an additional 90 employees, bringing total employment at the facility to nearly 500.
CHICAGO—An innovative plan to turn a former window manufacturing plant here into a national laboratory dedicated to the burgeoning field of digital manufacturing inched closer to reality Tuesday.
SCHAUMBURG, IL—Sunstar Americas Inc., a manufacturer of oral health care products, is building a new manufacturing facility here that could employ 400 people.
