VANCE, AL-It will be four years before the first C-Class sedan rolls off the floor at the Mercedes-Benz auto assembly plant in Vance, AL, but some folks are already anticipating what’s expected to be the biggest economic boon to West Alabama since Mercedes came here in the mid-90s. C-Class production could mean an additional $100 million in new investments from automotive suppliers building new plants or expanding existing ones. MORE
SALTILLO, Mexico-Heavy truck equipment supplier Commercial Vehicle Group Inc. will build a new assembly plant here to supply seating systems, flooring and plastic interior components to Daimler Trucks North America LLC. MORE
DETROIT-The City of Hamtramck filed a lawsuit Friday in Wayne County Circuit Court against the City of Detroit, seeking $4 million in tax revenues that Hamtramck officials said they are owed from the GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant. MORE
WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama will propose that companies be allowed to more quickly write off 100 percent of their new investment in plants and equipment through 2011. MORE
PARSIPPANY, NJ-Curtiss-Wright Corp. broke ground on construction of a $36 million, state-of-the-art assembly plant in Chambers County, TX. The company will build large vessels and equipment for the refining and petrochemical industries. MORE
ROCKFORD, IL-A federal court jury here has ordered Chrysler to pay $4.2 million to a 60-year-old pipefitter at its Belvidere, IL, assembly plant who put up with years of harassment, hateful graffiti and death threats over his Jewish and Cuban-American ethnicity. MORE
DINGOLFING, Germany-In a bid to improve working conditions for older adults, management at BMW’s plant here staffed an assembly line so that the average age of workers would be 47. They then asked the workers how to make things better. MORE
FENTON, MO-St. Louis County is in discussions with a consortium of business developers interested in turning the former Chrysler Assembly Plant here into an alternative energy business park. MORE
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