ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-South Korean automaker Hyundai has signed a deal with local authorities to build a $400 million car assembly plant with an annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles. MORE
WARRENVILLE, IL-International Truck and Engine Corp. and workers from the United Autoworkers Union have agreed to a tentative 3-year contract, ending a strike that began in late October. MORE
CHICAGO-Although problems remain, Boeing Co. says it will still deliver the first 787 Dreamliner aircraft for commercial service as scheduled in late 2008. MORE
MCLEAN, VA-October U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $393.40 million, with spending for the first part of 2007 up 6.3 percent compared with 2006. MORE
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea's Kia Motors Corp. has opened a second plant in China as part of an ongoing effort to raise overseas production to more than one million vehicles a year by 2009. MORE
ANN ARBOR, MI-North American-based robotics suppliers posted gains of 33 percent in new orders to North American manufacturing companies in the first nine months of 2007. MORE