DETROIT-Mary Barra got her start at a GM as a college student, inspecting the fit of hood and fender panels on Pontiacs. Today, she’s in charge of bringing new vehicles to market faster and attacking GM’s stubborn bureaucracy. MORE
MISSISSAUGA, ON-Woodbridge Foam Corp., a provider of urethane and bead foam materials for the automotive industry, will develop a new family of automotive interior products made from recycled materials. MORE
TOKYO-Mazda Motor and Sumitomo Metal Industries have developed new vehicle components made from 1,800 MPa ultra-high tensile steel. The super strength steel will debut in the all-new Mazda CX-5 crossover SUV, which will debut in early 2012. MORE
FARMINGTON, CT-Otis Elevator Co. is moving production from its factory in Nogales, Mexico, to a new plant in South Carolina-because the move will save the company money. MORE
CUPERTINO, CA-Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56. MORE
WASHINGTON-The Obama administration has launched a multi-agency competition to support the advancement of 20 high-growth regional industry clusters. The initiative will promote development in areas such as advanced manufacturing, information technology, aerospace and clean technology. MORE
DETROIT-Ford Motor Co. will pay its U.S. factory workers a $6,000 signing bonus and add thousands of U.S. factory jobs as part of a four-year contract deal reached Tuesday with the UAW. MORE
INDIANAPOLIS-One day after the Marines successfully landed a Joint Strike Fighter on a ship for the first time, Rolls-Royce executives showed off the company’s new assembly plant here to produce the jet’s complex lift fan system. MORE
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