GREENVILLE, SC-BMW plans to add
another shift at its plant in South Carolina, the first sign of a turnaround following
its earlier layoff of about 1,000 contract workers. MORE
POOLER, GA-Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas Inc. will locate a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility here, ultimately creating 500 jobs and investing $325 million. MORE
DETROIT-General Motors Co. will go to 24-hour operations at factories in Kansas, Michigan and Indiana to handle an expected increase in demand and to make up for production lost from a large-scale factory consolidation announced earlier in the year. The automaker says it will add a third shift at its Fairfax plant in Kansas City, KS, in January. That will be followed in March or April by third shifts at factories in Delta Township, MI, and Fort Wayne, IN. MORE
DEARBORN, MI-Ford Motor Co. will
invest $490 million to build a new plant in China in conjunction with China’s Changan
Ford Mazda Automobile company. MORE
INGERSOLL, ON-Workers at the booming CAMI auto assembly plant here have accepted a new contract that will freeze wages for almost four years and pensions for eight years, but assure production until late into the next decade. MORE
FLINT, MI-GM will invest more than $21 million in its Flint Assembly Plant to produce the 2011 Chevrolet light-duty crew cab. The investment will include renovating the existing heavy-duty assembly process and new machinery and tooling for light-duty trucks. MORE
FORT LUPTON, CO-A Denmark-based manufacturing company will bring as many as 150 jobs to a new plant here that will make components for the wind-power industry. Officials from Bach Composite Industry announced plans to locate their first North American manufacturing plant in Fort Lupton. MORE
FREMONT, CA-Fremont city officials are saying very little about a Chinese company interested in taking over the automotive assembly plant here. The city has been scrambling to come up with options for the NUMMI plant, a 25-year joint venture of General Motors and Toyota that now faces imminent closure. MORE
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