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THORNTON, CO—Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. will make solar panels to help power Foxconn’s new electronics assembly plant in Zhenzhou City, China.

CHICAGO—Boeing has received orders for 94 passenger jets worth $8.4 billion from two Asian airlines.

AKRON, OH—Researchers at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have discovered that using soybean oil in tires can increase tread life by 10 percent and reduce the tiremaker’s use of petroleum by 7 million gallons each year.

DEARBORN, MI—Ford of Europe is developing a new virtual factory to simulate assembly line production processes to reduce costs and enhance efficiency.

WASHINGTON—More jobs will be coming back to the United States from offshore locations during the next eight years, according to a new report by CoreNet Global, an association of corporate real estate executives.

MILWAUKEE—A 23-year-old man employee of an assembly plant here shot and killed his supervisor Friday before killing himself.

STERLING HEIGHTS, MI—Ford Motor Co. is hiring 225 workers and adding an assembly line at its assembly plant here to make a new hybrid-electric transmission. The carmaker is investing $220 million in the project.

ANN ARBOR, MI—Humantech is hosting an hour-long webinar Aug. 8 that will address solutions to the 10 most common ergonomic problems in industrial workplaces.

MARKTOBERDORF, Germany—Fendt tractors, a division of AGCO, has implemented a real-time production tracking system from Ubisense.

SMYRNA, TN—Nissan’s automotive assembly plant here has earned ISO 50001 certification for leadership in energy management.