BIELSKO, Poland-Kuka Assembly & Test Systems has produced a new engine assembly line for the Fiat Powertrain Technologies factory here. With a cycle time of 40 seconds, the line consists of 51 automatic and 75 manual workstations. MORE
WASHINGTON-Automakers are making money, plants are hiring and the taxpayers’ stake in General Motors is dwindling. Things are looking up for the president in assembly line country-just not the voting. MORE
SPARTANBURG, SC-By the end of the year, BMW’s assembly plant here will have produced 50 percent more vehicles than it did in 2009, and the company hopes to further boost production next year. MORE
MISHAWAKA, IN-Infused with a $50 million federal loan, Vehicle Production Group plans to assemble wheelchair-accessible vans at an old factory here. MORE
WASHINGTON-The economy grew slightly faster last summer than first thought, benefiting from stronger spending by U.S. shoppers and improved overseas sales of U.S. goods. MORE
WEST POINT, GA-Kia Motors is gearing up for a third wave of hiring-about 1,000 jobs altogether-in anticipation of adding a third vehicle to its assembly plant here. The massive plant already employs more than 2,000 people. MORE
LOUISVILLE, KY-Investigators are looking for a person who left a suspicious package at Ford’s assembly plant here. The Metro Police Bomb Squad responded to a suspicious package at around 1 p.m. Thursday, and determined it was not explosive. MORE
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia has cited an assembly line problem for a defect affecting some of its new N8 smartphones. “We have narrowed [the issue] down to the way we assemble the engines,” says Nokia Executive Vice President Niklas Savander. MORE
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