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PEORIA, IL—Caterpillar Inc. won’t choose its home state of Illinois as the site of its new $150 million assembly plant, citing the state’s “unfriendly” business climate.

FAIRFIELD, CT—GE has received a $1.36 million federal grant to improve the efficiency of electric cars.

CHATTANOOGA, TN—Volkswagen’s assembly plant here has become the first automotive manufacturing facility to earn LEED Platinum certification.

BLUE SPRINGS, MS—Toyota Motor Corp. is adding a second shift at its assembly plant here. The extra shift will boost annual production capacity at the plant to 150,000 units and employment to 2,000 workers.

KYLE, TX—Image Microsystems plans to build a new factory here to turn electronic waste into substrate material for street and highway signs. The plant could create more than 180 jobs in the next two years.

BROWNSVILLE, TX—Precision Coils is investing $3.7 million to renovate an old assembly plant here to improve production of its heating and cooling coils.

SEATTLE—Boeing has discovered a manufacturing error causing delamination in the plastic-composite aft fuselage section of some 787 Dreamliners.

PENDERGRASS, GA—Toyota Industries Corp. will open a $350 million assembly plant here, creating 320 jobs.

ANNA, OH—Honda will invest $98 million in its assembly plant here to make pulley components for continously variable transmissions.

LONDON, ON—Systems integrator Edge Automation has designed an multistation automated assembly system that can produce a sophisticated golf ball-sized transmission sensor every 10 seconds.