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LONDON-Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world’s first “printed” aircraft. The entire structure of the unmanned air vehicle was printed with a nylon laser sintering machine. MORE

DANVILLE, VA-Workers at Ikea’s U.S. furniture factory voted to form a union, a victory for the labor movement seeking to rebound from record-low membership at private companies. MORE

ELLISVILLE, MS-GE Aviation is investing $56 million to build a new assembly plant here. The plant is expected to come online in 2013 and employ 250 people. MORE

LAS VEGAS, NV-Cardio Infrared Technologies Inc. will relocate all manufacturing from Italy and China to a new assembly plant here this fall. The move is expected to increase product quality and reduce expenses by up to 73 percent. MORE

BEIJING-Foxconn will install 1 million robots within three years to handle simple, repetitive tasks that are being handled by human workers. MORE

ELGIN, IL-Continuous-motion systems offer many advantages to medical device assemblers. MORE

RALEIGH, NC-GM and ABB are collaborating on research to develop ways to reuse spent batteries for electric vehicles. MORE

DANVILLE, VA-Workers at Ikea factory here will vote today on whether to unionize. MORE

BERLIN-Engineers at Festo have designed and built a lightweight plastic robot that mimics bird flight, a goal first described by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490, but only now achievable through the use of modern manufacturing methods. MORE

SEATTLE-In a remark in Wednesday morning’s second quarter earnings call with analysts and reporters, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said the company could assemble the re-engined 737 someplace other than Renton, where Boeing has built the 737 since the 1960s. MORE