CONKLIN, NY-Impress USA opened a new factory here to make cans for seafood, aerosols and other products. Initially, the facility will employ 65 full-time workers. MORE
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC-South Carolina will be asked to approve another $3 million in December to train workers for Boeing Co.’s new assembly plant here. South Carolina already approved $6 million for the training but these new funds mostly will cover equipment and materials. MORE
LOUISVILLE, KY-Ford Motor Co. is expected to build a new Lincoln sport utility vehicle-alongside the Escape and other compact, fuel-efficient models-at the Louisville Assembly Plant once the factory’s renovation is completed a year from now. MORE
BROKEN ARROW, OK-Enerflow Industries, a manufacturer of oil-field equipment, hopes to add hundreds of new jobs as it expands over the next several years. MORE
DETROIT-Chrysler earned a $239 million operating profit from July through September. After three consecutive quarterly operating profits, CEO Sergio Marchionne estimated Chrysler will show an operating profit of about $700 million for all of 2010. MORE
DETROIT-The National Labor Relations Board is investigating the United Auto Workers handling of a controversial contract change that left many workers facing pay cuts next year at GM’s assembly plant in Orion Township. MORE
AUSTIN, TX-On-X Life Technologies Inc., which makes prosthetic heart valves and carbon products for orthopedic implants, unveiled a new 40,000-square-foot assembly plant here. The new facility is about double the size of its former home. MORE
MELBOURNE, FL-Jet manufacturer Embraer has nearly finished construction of its new assembly plant here. The new facility will employ about 200 people. MORE
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