CLEARWATER BEACH, FL-By fostering a culture and process of innovation, consumer products manufactuer Airspray has been able to launch multiple new products each year. Innovation does more than generate profits. It motivates your workforce, creates excitement, and builds consumer desire to do business with you. Learn how to foster innovation from a leading expert in the field at the Assembly Summit Oct. 18-20 in Clearwater Beach, FL. MORE
DETROIT-Korean auto supplier Hyundai Mobis opened a plant in Detroit today to supply front and rear suspension modules for the Jeep Grand Cherokee. The factory, which cost $23 million, will initially employ 110 workers on one shift. MORE
LONG BEACH, CA-Boeing and its striking C-17 workers have reached a tentative contract agreement that would end the strike that has shut down the assembly facility here for almost a month. MORE
CHATTANOOGA, TN-VW is requiring production workers hired for its new U.S. assembly plant here to go through a fitness program on top of the usual job training, aiming to forge an “industrial athlete” who can lift, grip, bend and push without flagging. MORE
CLEARWATER BEACH, FL-Many manufacturing engineers have to worry about cutting costs and slashing weight. Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have to do all that while addressing intense safety and complexity issues, not to mention gravity. Discover the challenges of designing and assembling the next generation of spacecraft-and how they apply to more down-to-earth products-at the Assembly Summit Oct. 18-20 in Clearwater Beach, FL. MORE
LANCASTER, KY-More than 500 people submitted applications Thursday for 35 jobs at the new assembly plant being built by Mine Shields LLC, a manufacturer of mine refuge chambers. MORE
EAST MOLINE, IL-More than 80 years after introducing its first combine, John Deere Harvester Works has rolled its half-millionth self-propelled combine off the assembly line here. The plant employs about 2,400 people. MORE
BEND, OR-Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion that leveled part of a bullet-manufacturing plant here, shaking the ground and rattling windows several blocks away. No one was hurt in Wednesday’s blast at the Nosler Inc. plant, which makes hunting ammunition. MORE
CLEARWATER BEACH, FL-If “cap & trade” legislation currently before Congress passes, every manufacturer will have to be concerned about its carbon footprint. But what exactly is a carbon footprint and how is it measured? Find out from one of world’s leading experts at the Assembly Summit Oct. 18-20 in Clearwater Beach, FL. MORE
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