LINCOLN, NE-Employees at Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp. are using virtual desktop management software to package, deliver and manage Microsoft Windows and business applications. MORE
WURTLAND, KY-J.H. Fletcher & Co., a manufacturer of mobile underground mining equipment, will locate a new assembly plant here. The project will initially create 20 new jobs and entail a capital investment of $3.37 million. MORE
CHATTANOOGA, TN-The Komatsu tractor assembly plant here may shut down due to parts shortages. The plant receives about 20 percent of its components from a Japanese facility that was severely damaged by the earthquake and tsunami. MORE
NEW YORK MILLS, MN-A New York Mills man accused of making a bomb threat that led to the evacuation of the Lund-Crestliner boat assembly plant last week was an employee. MORE
TOKYO, JAPAN-Japanese
automakers will idle more plants for at least the next few days as businesses
voluntarily limit electricity consumption in the wake of last Friday's
earthquake and tsunami. It was too soon to say whether production in North America might be disrupted because of a delay in
parts. MORE
PALMDALE, CA-Northrop Grumman Corp. has started using a new assembly line here for making the fuselage of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The assembly line is based on the automated systems used by automakers. MORE
GALESBURG, IL-Sometime in May, the first tankless water heaters are expected to roll off the assembly line at Intellihot Green Technologies new factory here. MORE
KANSAS CITY, KS-The General Motors Fairfax plant here is back in operation after an evacuation because of a novelty toy that looked like a hand grenade, police said. MORE
NEW YORK, NY-According
to United Nations data, the U.S.
is still the largest manufacturing country in the world. In 2009, American
manufacturing output (in real terms) was nearly $2.2 trillion. That's about 45
percent larger than China's,
at just under $1.5 trillion. So why do so many Americans think the U.S. doesn't
make anything anymore?
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