PALM SPRINGS, CA-A Japanese medical device assembler has selected Riverside County to build a 52,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution center. Ground will be broken on the multimillion-dollar project on Dec. 16. MORE
GREENSBORO, NC-Honda Aircraft has begun work on the North Carolina building where its $4 million light jet will be assembled. Construction on the 250,000-square-foot building at Piedmont Triad International Airport near Greensboro should be finished in early 2011. MORE
SAGINAW, MI-Saginaw is one of two finalists to land a $177 million solar manufacturing plant from a California-based company that could equate to 500 new within five years. The City Council plans to vote Dec. 7 on a $10 million brownfield redevelopment tax-credit plan to allow GlobalWatt to retool the shuttered Enterprise Automotive Systems plant. MORE
OSHAWA, ON-General Motors will begin North American production of the new 2011 Buick Regal at the Oshawa Car Assembly plant in Canada during the first quarter of 2011. MORE
OSAKA, Japan-Sharp Corp.’s new assembly plant in western Japan is massive by any measure: It cost $11 billion to build and covers enough land to occupy 32 baseball stadiums. Considered the most expensive manufacturing site ever built in Japan, the facility started churning out liquid-crystal display panels last month. MORE
MONTGOMERY, AL-About 10:30 a.m. yesterday morning, the 1 millionth U.S.-built Hyundai Sonata rolled off the assembly line here. The first Sonata was assembled in March 2005. MORE
PHILADELPHIA-A new solar panel manufacturing facility will be built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. The Greek firm Heliotechniki S.A. will open a manufacturing plant employing 400 to 500 workers. MORE
DELTA TOWNSHIP, MI-Hundreds of GM workers from Spring Hill, TN, have signed up to transfer to the company’s Lansing Delta Township assembly plant. GM will make offers to as many as 840 Spring Hill workers, picking from the transfer list. MORE
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