MOUNT HOLLY, NC-Beginning May 24, 119 people will return to work at the Freightliner truck assembly plant here, as Daimler Trucks North America prepares to double production. More recalls are expected this summer. MORE
NEW YORK-Microscopic robots made from DNA molecules can walk, follow instructions and work together to assemble simple products on an atomic-scale assembly line. Researchers at Columbia University and New York University created the tiny robots, which are 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. Using DNA components, the engineers have emulated a traditional assembly line. MORE
ILION, NY-Remington Arms Co. plans to invest $5.9 million over the next two years in its 194-year-old firearms plant. The money will be earmarked for building improvements, in addition to new equipment and machinery. Remington will also add 100 jobs at the facility, as it relocates some production from North Haven, CT, to upstate New York. The company has been making shotguns and rifles in Ilion since 1816. MORE
JEFFERSON CITY, MO-Gov. Jay Nixon and Missouri House leaders
are making a final push for incentives they say are important to keeping a Ford
assembly plant in the Kansas City area. The legislation would let manufacturers
keep half of the withholding taxes they normally would pay the state if they
invest in factory improvements for a new product. MORE
SAGINAW, MI-GlobalWatt, Inc. of San Jose,
California has selected KUKA Systems to be its supplier/equipment partner for
the world’s first greenfield liquid encapsulant solar panel module line to be
installed here. The initial semi-automated line is expected to cost under $10M
and be operational by November 2010, with production to begin in the first
quarter of 2011. MORE
PLEASANTON, CA-Adept Technology Inc. has received a $2.9 million order for high-precision robots from a manufacturer of consumer electronics in Southeast Asia. MORE
ASHLAND CITY, TN-A.O. Smith Water Products Co. has been forced to shift water heater production away from its assembly plant here, which was damaged by last week’s floods. MORE
WINDSOR, ON-Solar Source Corp. will locate a manufacturing facility here to produce crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels. The 45,000-square-foot facility will create 150 full-time jobs. MORE
LONG BEACH, CA-At
midnight Monday, 1,700 workers who build the Boeing C-17 cargo plane here went on
strike, after contract talks broke down earlier in the day. Many have worked at
Boeing for 25 years. MORE
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