MUSKEGON, MI—Police responded to a bomb threat Thursday evening at Adac Plastics’ assembly plant here. No bomb was found, and no one was injured during the incident.
SCHAUMBURG, IL—To facilitate maintenance and repairs, automation engineers are increasingly taking a modular approach to system design and standardizing on configurable components, whenever possible.
DECHERD, TN—Nissan and Daimler have begun constructing a new engine assembly plant here. The facility will be able to produce 250,000 units per year and is expected to employ 400.
ARETXABALETA, Spain—Spanish systems integrator Mondragon Assembly has won contracts to design and build two automated assembly systems for solar panels.
WASHINGTON—A new report from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows that since the beginning of 2010, manufacturing employment has increased by 5.2 percent in the Midwest, while it has gone up by only 2.2 percent in the South.
ANN ARBOR, MI—North American robotics companies enjoyed one of the industry’s strongest opening quarters ever, according to new statistics released from Robotic Industries Association. Sales are up 30 percent compared with 2011.
CHATSWORTH, CA—Boulder Electric Vehicle has leased a 27,714-square-foot building here last month and has begun tooling it up to assemble electric vehicles. The company will initially hire 30 people and could employ 150 at full production.
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