INDIANAPOLIS-One day after the Marines successfully landed a Joint Strike Fighter on a ship for the first time, Rolls-Royce executives showed off the company’s new assembly plant here to produce the jet’s complex lift fan system. MORE
COLUMBUS, IN-Sunright America, a Japan-based manufacturer of automotive fasteners, will expand its 170,000-square-foot factory here, adding up to 100 employees by 2014. MORE
CHICAGO-Rockwell Automation will host its annual Automation Fair Nov. 16-17 at McCormick Place West in Chicago. The fair will cover control design, safety, motion control, networking, maintenance and other topics. MORE
SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY-Magna Seating of America expects to hire 450 people at its assembly plant here, which makes seats for the new Ford Escape to be built at the Louisville Assembly Plant. MORE
NEW YORK-Smith Electric Vehicles has requested $1.7 million in tax breaks from the New York City Industrial Development Agency to help it turn a South Bronx warehouse into a new assembly plant. MORE
BOSTON-It’s been said that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Harvard University assistant professor Deishin Lee has written a paper showing how manufacturers can turn trash into their own treasure. MORE
RIDLEY PARK, PA-After a four-year undercover investigation, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment yesterday charging 23 workers at Boeing’s assembly plant here with distributing oxycodone and other prescription painkillers. MORE
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