WATERTOWN, CT-Siemon, a manufacturer of network cabling, has announced that its assembly plant here is a zero-landfill operation. According to an internal audit, more than 99 percent of the waste material at the plant is recycled, reused or repurposed in an environmentally sustainable manner. MORE
MILWAUKEE, WI-Harley-Davidson Inc. will discontinue its Buell motorcycle brand and divest
its recently acquired MV Agusta lineup as part of the company's long-term
business strategy. MORE
LOS ANGELES-Italian manufacturer AnsaldoBreda agreed to build a $70-million assembly plant here as part of its successful bid to deliver 100 light-rail cars to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Construction of the rail facility will begin next summer at the earliest and will take about a year. MORE
SALINA, NY-About 100 people gathered at a former General Motors auto parts plant here Tuesday for the kind of event not seen in Central New York very often these days-the opening of a new factory. Bitzer Scroll Inc. officially opened its second U.S. manufacturing plant. MORE
SPENCER, IN-Cook Urological has opened a new, state -of -the- art manufacturing plant here. More than 65 percent of the 160,000 square foot facility is dedicated to manufacturing. The facility has been designed to allow for an additional 100 or more employees to augment the existing 500-person workforce. MORE
OKOLONA, MS-United Furniture Industries will add 100 new jobs at its manufacturing facility here. Besides adding jobs, the company will use nearly $1.3 million in grants to fix the roof and sprinkler system in its 575,000-square-foot building. MORE
HUTCHINSON, KS-Siemens says recent orders
for wind generators in Canada and the United States show the market remains a
solid one, even in an economic downturn. MORE
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