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DUBLIN, VA—Volvo Trucks’ assembly plant here is the first U.S. manufacturing facility to be certified to the ISO 50001 standards for energy efficiency.

CHATTANOOGA, TN—A new hail net under construction at Volkswagen’s assembly plant here got an early test Friday when golf ball-sized hail pounded the facilty. The hail net is approximately 40 percent complete and protected some of the vehicles.

WINDSOR, ON—Chrysler has fired four hourly employees at its assembly plant here for allegedly drinking alcohol while on the job.

KANSAS CITY, KS—Union workers at the General Motor’s Fairfax Assembly Plant approved a new local contract, averting a potential strike.

BUFFALO, NY—The Toyota assembly plant here will increase production of transmissions and add some 80 new jobs.

CHATTANOOGA, TN—Volkswagen is putting up a fabric “hail net” to protect newly assembled vehicles its assembly plant here.

DETROIT—GM is in talks to buy out 5 percent of France’s biggest carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen.

SAN FRANCISCO—Motiv Power Systems has received a $1.16 million grant to build a pilot assembly line to produce power trains for electric trucks.