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CALEDONIA, WI—Motion control technology supplier Unico is spending $6 million to expand its assembly plant here and expects to create up to 175 new jobs in the next three years.

JACKSON, MS—The UAW is stepping up efforts to organize workers at Nissan’s automotive assembly plant here.

TOKYO—Japanese manufacturers are doing more assembly jobs by hand in an effort to slash power consumption in the face of possible electric shortages.

BEIJING—The army of cheap laborers that made China a manufacturing powerhouse is neither as vast as once thought nor as cheap as it was. In response, manufacturers have been spending heavily on automation.

MONTGOMERY, AL—Nearly 20,000 people have applied for the 877 new jobs that Hyundai is filling for a third shift at its assembly plant here, and applications are still coming.

PARIS, TN—Dana Holding Corp. will spend $3.8 million to expand its oil cooler assembly plant here. The investment is expected to create 49 full-time jobs.

MANATEE, FL—Veethree Electronics & Marine LLC, a supplier of mechanical and electronic instrumentation, has bought a new, larger assembly plant here and plans to add 20 jobs to its current 65 by 2015.

GAIMERSHEIM, Germany—Audi has opened a research center here to develop high-voltage lithium-ion batteries.

SACRAMENTO, CA—Siemens has been awarded a $73 million contract to build 18 light rail vehicles at its assembly plant here.

HOLLY HILL, FL—An electronics assembly plant here was evacuated on Wednesday due to a bomb threat. Police say a plant employee made the threat because she needed a break from work.