KANSAS CITY, MO-Ford Motor Co. plans to invest $400 million in its 60-year-old Claycomo, MO, assembly plant during the next two years to build a new model alongside its popular F-150 truck. MORE
SALT LAKE CITY-Northrop Grumman’s Navigation Systems Div. opened its newly expanded manufacturing facility here. The plant assembles navigation systems, gyroscopes and accelerometers for military and commercial platforms. It also has a highly automated circuit card assembly operation. MORE
NEW YORK-Orders and sales at factories in the New York region picked up in January, signaling manufacturing will keep contributing to the expansion. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s general economic index rose to 11.9 from a revised 9.9 in December. MORE
DETROIT-Chrysler is debating the future of its minivans, even as it starts making the 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town and Country this week. MORE
WASHINGTON-U.S. companies have long demanded that China let its currency rise to make U.S. exports cheaper. But as President Hu Jintao visits Washington this week, U.S. companies are stressing other goals: Stopping the theft of intellectual property. And getting a fair chance to win government contracts. MORE
ROME-Workers at a Fiat car manufacturing plant in Italy have accepted new working conditions in return for company investment in a deal that may have implications for the company’s U.S. employees. MORE
LOS ANGELES-Coda Holdings has raised $76 million in a new round of financing that will support production of its all-electric sedan and help build a battery manufacturing facility in Southern California. MORE
LOUISVILLE, KY-We now know what the new Ford vehicle that will be made at the Louisville Assembly Plant will look like. The Ford Vertrek, billed to replace the Escape, is sleek, rounded and will get 30 percent better gas mileage than the Escape. MORE
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