MURRYSVILLE, PA-Philips Respironics opened a new $32 million, state-of-the-art plant here to assemble products used for treating sleep apnea. The two-story, 172,000-square-foot building employs about 325 people. MORE
AMES, IA-Under the direction of associate professor Vinay Dayal, Iowa State students are looking for ways to make wind turbines roll off U.S. assembly lines more efficiently. They hope to improve the productivity of turbine blade factories by as much as 35 percent. MORE
CHICAGO-South Carolina is in a high-stakes competition
with the state of Washington to land a Boeing Co. airplane production facility
that could become the cornerstone for the aerospace industry on the East Coast.
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MOLINE, IL-Deere & Co. and the United Auto
Workers have tentatively agreed on a new six-year contract covering 9,500
employees and 17,000 retirees. MORE
DETROIT-Penske
Automotive Group has rejected a deal to acquire General Motors’
Saturn unit, a decision that likely spells the end for the brand and threatens
thousands of jobs.T MORE
BRUSH, CO-If all goes as planned, E2Logicx Solar will create 130 new jobs when it opens a new manufacturing facility and its world headquarters here. “E2Logicx Solar will be a U.S.-based designer and manufacturer of solar electrical products,” company CEO Fida Hossain said during a kickoff event Friday at the planned future site of the plant. MORE
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