MILWAUKEE-More and more Wisconsin businesses have adopted the lean disciplines that carried Toyota to the top of the automotive world. Kondex Corp. in Lomira, WI, is an example. At one point in the tour through its thoroughly organized factory, CEO Jim Wessing and Vice President of Manufacturing Brian Bloczynski pointed to a skid of hard steel blades and remarked that Kondex had taken the work away from a competitor in low-cost India. MORE
REDWOOD SHORES, CA-Business software giant Oracle Corp. is entering the
computer hardware market through the purchase of Sun Microsystems for $7.4
billion. MORE
TIFTON, GA-Heatcraft Refrigeration Products has opened an additional manufacturing plant next to its current location here. The new plant significantly expands the company’s production capabilities. An additional 200 jobs will be brought to Tifton as a result of the expansion. MORE
CHICAGO-Fourteen hundred workers at the Ford assembly plant here returned to work Monday morning after a three-week furlough. The Torrance Avenue plant assembles the Ford Taurus, Mercury Sable and Lincoln MKS. MORE
DETROIT-Despite its woes back home, General
Motors is strongly considering building a new plant in China to tap into
growing demand in the region. MORE
NEW DEHLI, India-Hero Honda Motors Ltd., India’s biggest
motorcycle maker, expects sales this year to climb 7.5 percent to a record as
it boosts output to meet demand from the country’s growing middle class. MORE
CHICAGO-Boeing continues to set records with
its successful 737 jetliner, recently delivering No. 6,000, with more than
2,000 more orders on the books. MORE
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