WASHINGTON—Joyce D. Miller, who rose from an assembly line job to the top ranks of American labor as the first woman on the AFL-CIO executive council, died June 30 in Washington. She was 84.
ZILINA, Slovakia—Thanks to a small army of robots, the Kia automotive assembly plant here is one of the few plants in the world capable of building up to eight different models on the same line.
CLEVELAND—Metal forming companies expect a slight uptick in business conditions during the next three months, according to the latest Business Conditions Report from the Precision Metalforming Association.
OBERHAUSEN, Germany—Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology in have developed a new fluid for cooling the costly batteries in electric vehicles.
ANN ARBOR, MI—More than half of factory workers who thought they had excellent or good hearing actually suffered hearing loss and didn’t even recognize the problem, a new study shows.
BOSTON—ZeeVee Inc., a developer of high-definition video products, has moved its overseas contract manufacturing operations to Massachusetts from China.
APPLETON, WI—Voting is underway for the 2012 North American welding hero. The top three vote-getters among the 10 nominees will receive welding equipment and apparel from Miller Electric Manufacturing Co. Voting ends July 31.
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