LAWRENCEVILLE, PA-An assembly-line worker was killed early Friday morning when a piece of machinery smashed into his torso at the rail car pars factory where he worked. MORE
BLUE SPRINGS, MS-In the fall, the first Mississippi-built Toyota Corolla will roll off the assembly line at the Japanese automaker’s assembly plant here. And with it, about 1,200 people will be working at the plant. MORE
MONROE, MI-Inergy Automotive Systems will construct a $70 million, 300,000-square-foot assembly plant here to make gas tanks and other fluid storage vessels for motor vehicles. The plant will initially employ 200 people. MORE
NAPOLEON, OH-Isofoton, a Spanish solar panel maker, will open a $32.2 million assembly plant here that is expected to create more than 300 jobs in the next few years. MORE
DAVIS, CA-Japanese machine tool manufacturer Mori Seiki has begun construction of a new assembly plant here, it’s first in North America. The plant will employ 100 to 150. MORE
DETROIT-Two years after the end of the Great Recession, the auto industry is hiring again-and much faster than the rest of the economy. As an employer, it’s growing faster than airplane manufacturers, shipbuilders, health care providers and the federal government. MORE
WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama has named Jay Williams, the mayor of Youngstown, OH, the director of the Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers. MORE
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