NEWBERRY, SC-Caterpillar plans to more than triple employment at its four-year-old diesel generator plant here. Within four years, the company expects to add up to 500 workers to the 190 already employed at the plant. MORE
CLEVELAND-In a sign that economic activity is increasing, almost half of North American metalforming companies expect their orders to rise during the next three months, according to the latest report from the Precision Metalforming Association. MORE
PITTSBURGH-Alcoa is jointly testing an advanced solar technology with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab. The goal of the project is to make concentrating solar power technology competitive in the United States by lowering its cost to generate energy. MORE
DETROIT-GM wants to pay factory workers making advanced technology items for electric cars less than $14 per hour-lower than a controversial second-tier wage reached in the 2007 national contract. MORE
GUANGZHOU, China-Many factory bosses in southern China’s Pearl River Delta-the nation’s biggest manufacturing base-are complaining about a severe shortage of workers. MORE
OTTAWA, ON-Canadian factory sales rose four times as much as expected in January to the highest level since November 2008. Helped by rebounding demand from the United States., exports will add 1.9 percentage points to Canadian growth this year and 2.1 points next year. MORE
LOUISVILLE, KY-Kentuckiana
Curb announced this week that it is investing $2.5 million to expand its plant
here and will add 50 full-time manufacturing jobs. More
LINCOLN, AL-At Honda’s assembly plant here, workers don’t just build cars. They also build the equipment that helps build those cars. The Japanese automaker last year opened an on-site high-tech engineering facility, where specialized production tools are designed, developed and manufactured. MORE
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