WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama will propose that companies be allowed to more quickly write off 100 percent of their new investment in plants and equipment through 2011. MORE
PARSIPPANY, NJ-Curtiss-Wright Corp. broke ground on construction of a $36 million, state-of-the-art assembly plant in Chambers County, TX. The company will build large vessels and equipment for the refining and petrochemical industries. MORE
ROCKFORD, IL-A federal court jury here has ordered Chrysler to pay $4.2 million to a 60-year-old pipefitter at its Belvidere, IL, assembly plant who put up with years of harassment, hateful graffiti and death threats over his Jewish and Cuban-American ethnicity. MORE
DINGOLFING, Germany-In a bid to improve working conditions for older adults, management at BMW’s plant here staffed an assembly line so that the average age of workers would be 47. They then asked the workers how to make things better. MORE
FENTON, MO-St. Louis County is in discussions with a consortium of business developers interested in turning the former Chrysler Assembly Plant here into an alternative energy business park. MORE
WASHINGTON-The value of new factory orders rose 0.1 percent in July on the strong aircraft-led gain in durable goods orders, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR-Caterpillar Inc. dedicated a $140 million road grader factory Wednesday, a facility that will employ 600 people and produce the big machines for markets around the world. MORE
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