GREENWOOD, IN-Endress+Hauser has opened a new assembly plant here to make temperature sensors, transmitters, recorders, flow computers, displays and other instrumentation. MORE
VICTORIA, TX-Caterpillar Inc. is expanding its yet-to-be-completed assembly plant here by an additional 200,000 square feet at an added cost of $70 million. MORE
DETROIT-Chrysler plans to invest $114 million to reopen part of the recently closed Trenton North engine plant in Michigan. The investment is expected to create 268 new jobs. MORE
MUSKEGON, MI-Fortu PowerCell Inc. will begin construction of a battery assembly plant this fall. The company will begin hiring of 125 employees in early 2012, and production of its “second-generation” lithium ion battery module will begin next fall. MORE
ONTARIO, OH-The U.S. Department of Energy will offer a loan guarantee to Calisolar to commercialize its solar silicon manufacturing plant here. The plant could create 1,100 jobs. MORE
MEBANE, NC-AKG of America, a manufacturer of heat exchangers and cooling equipment, will spend $3.3 million to expand their assembly plant here, creating 76 jobs. MORE
DETROIT-Ford Motor Co. is close to resolving a 7-year-old lawsuit over whether taxpayers should pay part of the cleanup costs at its historic Rouge complex dating to military production from World War I. MORE