LEWISTON, ID-Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has begun constructing a $10 million assembly plant here that will make high-tech equipment for electrical generation, transmission and distribution. MORE
MEMPHIS, TN-Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. has chosen construction firm O’Neal Inc. to build a $200 million factory here to assemble transformers and other power products. MORE
SEATTLE-The new 747-8 jumbo jet, Boeing’s largest-ever passenger plane, was unveiled before thousands of cheering employees and invited guests in an Everett, Washington assembly plant. MORE
MOLINE, IL-Systems integrator Genesis Systems Group and Western Illinois University-Quad Cities Engineering Program are offering a scholarship to students interested in a future career in robotic welding systems and engineering. The scholarship will be available for the 2011-12 academic year. MORE
BELVIDERE, IL-About two dozen workers complained of nausea after a pipe carrying gasoline at the Chrysler plant here began leaking Thursday, and management cut short the second shift. MORE
SMYRNA, TN-Construction is progressing on Nissan’s new assembly plant here, which will produce lithium-ion batteries to power the all-electric Nissan Leaf. MORE