APEX, NC-ATI Industrial Automation, a manufacturer of tool changers, deburring tools and other robotic peripherals, broke ground on an expansion of its corporate headquarters here. The expansion more than doubles their current manufacturing capacity, while allowing 50 new employees to be hired. MORE
ANAHEIM, CA-A worker was hospitalized Thursday with burns to his ear after a chemical reaction set off an explosion and fire at a spa assembly plant here. MORE
HOUSTON-Robots for everyone. That’s James McLurkin’s dream, and as the director of a Rice University robotics lab, he’s creating an inexpensive and sophisticated robot called the “R-one” to make the dream a reality. MORE
MOUNTAIN TOP, PA-Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. has decided to keep open a wafer fabrication plant here that it had slated for closing two years ago. MORE
CHARLOTTE, NC-Siemens Energy officially opened a new 450,000-square-foot gas turbine assembly plant adjacent to its existing steam turbine-generator assembly plant here. MORE
INDIANAPOLIS-Specialty Coating Systems will host a free, educational webinar entitled “Advances in Conformal Coatings: Enhancing the Reliability of Innovative Technologies,” on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 9 a.m. GMT. MORE
LINCOLN, AL-Honda will invest an additional $84 million to expand production of light trucks and engines at its assembly plant here. The investment will increase annual capacity at the plant to 340,000 vehicles and engines by 2013 and add 100 new full-time associates. MORE
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