PLEASANTON, CA—Adept Technology Inc. has received $2.6 million robot order from Castec International Corp. in Taiwan. The robots will be used in high-precision workcells to produce subassemblies for smart phones.
MINDEN, NV—General Electric has opened an printed circuit board assembly plant here to provide prototypes and testing for its measurement and control products. The plant’s state-of-the-art surface mount assembly line represents a $4.3 million investment.
PULASKI CITY, TN—Magneti Marelli has opened a $54 million assembly plant here to make automotive lighting. The facility is expected to produce 5 million assemblies annually by 2016.
SMYRNA, TN—A maintenance technician has been killed in an accident at the body shop of Nissan’s assembly plant here. The technician, Michael Hooper, 43, had worked at the plant for 21 years.
INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana gained 8,020 manufacturing jobs from April 2012 to April 2013, an increase of 1.4 percent. It’s the second year in a row that industrial employment in Indiana posted a gain.
ASHEVILLE, NC—GE Aviation will break ground this year for a new factory here to make components for jet engines. The factory could employ more than 340 people within five years.
FORT WAYNE, IN—Brunswick Corp. has opened a new assembly plant here to make high-end pontoon boats and expects to add 200 jobs to its workforce by 2016.
WASHINGTON—U.S. worker productivity grew a modest 0.5 percent rate from January through March after having declined in the previous quarter. Weak productivity growth could boost hiring if consumers and businesses spend more.
CHATTANOOGA, TN—Volkswagen is aiming to reduce its worldwide energy consumption by 25 percent and triple the renewable energy it uses by 2018, part of a program called Think Blue.
WASHINGTON—Claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, pointing to further modest improvement in the job market. Approximately 334,0000 people filed for their first week of jobless benefits last week, 12,000 fewer than a week earlier, the Department of Labor said. It was the lowest level since early May, and slightly better than the 345,000 claims economists had expected.
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