Assembly Breaking News

RSS

Medical device manufacturer Okay Industries Inc. is building a 63,000-square-foot engineering and manufacturing facility here.

Chrysler will add 1,100 workers as part of the plan to add a third shift at its Jefferson North Assembly plant here next year.

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has reported record sales for 2011, having sold 3,538 cars.

From assembling diabetic testing supplies to making robotic surgical systems, South Florida manufacturers are generating jobs.

The seats in the new electric Ford Focus will be made from Repreve, a blend of postindustrial fiber waste and postconsumer waste, such as the plastic water bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

ROCHESTER, NH-Safran USA will construct a $100 million, 275,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility here to produce next-generation composite aircraft components. MORE

SCHENECTADY, NY-GE’s new $100 million sodium-metal halide battery factory here is one of many U.S. facilities assembling new products for rapidly growing markets-but those efforts cannot counter the reality that many large companies have lost the expertise necessary to produce today’s most innovative new technologies. MORE

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties-whether it’s to build a better mousetrap or a better battery-will now be able to do so far more easily than ever before. MORE

MARION, VA-Utility Trailer Manufacturing Co.’s assembly plant here has operated more than 2 million hours without a single lost-time accident. MORE

AUSTIN, TX-Most people think Apple’s A5 chips, which power iPads and iPhones, are made in Asia. In fact, they’re made at Samsung’s $3.6 billion manufacturing facility here. MORE