Articles Tagged with ''California manufacturing''

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA—Trident Case, which makes cases for mobile electronics, plans to move 50 percent to 75 percent of its manufacturing operations from China to southern California in 2014.

WASHINGTON—Indiana added 4,300 manufacturing jobs in June, the most of any state. Rounding out the top five states for creating manufacturing jobs are California, Georgia, Wisconsin and Texas.

LONG BEACH, CA—Mercedes-Benz has leased the long-vacant former Boeing aircraft manufacturing facility here. The luxury carmaker has yet to reveal its plans for the site.

SAN DIEGO—Systems integrator JOT Automation has designed a robotic assembly line to make insulin pumps for Tandem Diabetes Care Inc.

SANTA CLARITA, CA—Quallion, a manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for aerospace applications, has opened a new assembly plant here.

LANCASTER, CA—Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) will begin constructing a new assembly plant here next month to produce electric buses.

SANTA CLARA, CA—Google plans to assemble its wearable computer, Google Glass, here with the help of Taiwan’s Foxconn.

SAN JOSE, CA—Contract manufacturer Bestronics has opened a new, 71,000-square-foot electronics assembly plant here.

ESCONDIDO, CA—Green Power Resource Management Inc. will start volume production of a solar-powered air conditioner at a new assembly plant here.

SAN DIEGO—Soitec has opened a $150 million assembly plant here to make concentrator photovoltaic modules.