CHESTERFIELD, VA-Mazda North American Operations will invest $2.3 million to add a new automatic transmission remanufacturing line at its rotary engine remanufacturing facility here. MORE
LONDON-Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world’s first “printed” aircraft. The entire structure of the unmanned air vehicle was printed with a nylon laser sintering machine. MORE
DANVILLE, VA-Workers at Ikea’s U.S. furniture factory voted to form a union, a victory for the labor movement seeking to rebound from record-low membership at private companies. MORE
ELLISVILLE, MS-GE Aviation is investing $56 million to build a new assembly plant here. The plant is expected to come online in 2013 and employ 250 people. MORE
LAS VEGAS, NV-Cardio Infrared Technologies Inc. will relocate all manufacturing from Italy and China to a new assembly plant here this fall. The move is expected to increase product quality and reduce expenses by up to 73 percent. MORE
BERLIN-Engineers at Festo have designed and built a lightweight plastic robot that mimics bird flight, a goal first described by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490, but only now achievable through the use of modern manufacturing methods. MORE
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