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TUCSON, AZ-Raytheon Missile Systems has chosen Huntsville, AL, as the future home of a new $75 million missile factory. The factory will provide final assembly and testing for a sea-based missile interceptor and an advanced ship-defense weapon. Groundbreaking on the 70,000-square-foot facility is expected later this year. MORE

FARNBOROUGH, England-BAE Systems is reconfiguring its F-35 fuselage assembly line to speed up production. MORE

FOSHAN, China-A worker at Chimei Innolux Corp.’s LCD assembly plant here committed suicide yesterday. MORE

GREENVILLE, SC-OSHA has fined Jarden Home Brands $197,500 for safety violations at its assembly plant here. MORE

Two solar panel manufacturers have announced plans to build new assembly plants in the United States.

Amonix is planning a 214,000-square-foot facility in North Las Vegas, NV, that will have a production capacity of 150 megawatts annually and employ 278 people. MORE

In addition, Solexant Corp. will build its first commercial-scale manufacturing facility in Gresham, OR. The plant will have a capacity of 100 megawatts annually. MORE

NANCHANG, China-Ford and its Chinese partner Jiangling Motors Corp. began building a $300 million assembly plant here. MORE

MILWAUKEE-A company that makes equipment to detect impurities in water will build a new assembly plant here. MORE

DETROIT-Chrysler is adding a second shift at its assembly plant building the new Jeep Grand Cherokee in a move that has created 1,100 new jobs. MORE

WINSTON-SALEM, NC-The bidding for Caterpillar’s new assembly plant has begun in earnest, as Winston-Salem votes to give the tractor maker $13 million in incentives if it locates there. MORE

MONTGOMERY, AL- Hyundai Heavy Industries will build a $90 million assembly plant here that should employ about 500 people when it opens in early 2012. The company makes large power transformers. MORE