COLUMBUS, IN-Nearly 400 workers laid off from the Cummins Inc. engine factory here returned to work yesterday. Cummins had laid off 720 employees, but more than half have been called back to resume production at the plant, which produces engines for the diesel Dodge Ram, when Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy last week. MORE
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Chongqing Changan Automobile Co. will
reportedly spend $80 million to build a plant in South Africa with an annual
capacity of 50,000 vehicles. MORE
DETROIT-General Motors is considering
retaining the G8 sedan, part of the discontinued Pontiac brand, and giving it to
the Chevrolet division where it will be marketed as the new Caprice. MORE
CHATHAM, ON-No new contract talks are scheduled between CAW Locals 127 and 35 and Navistar Inc. Workers at the Richmond Street truck assembly plant are on a two-week paid summer shutdown. CAW Local 127 president Aaron Neaves said he wasn't aware of any plans to resume bargaining in the near future. MORE
ARLINGTON, TX-Workers are returning to the General Motors Assembly Plant here for the first time in nearly two months. The factory's 2,400 employees are set to be back on the assembly line today, welding and bolting together Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade sport utility vehicles. MORE
SHANGHAI-Volkswagen AG says vehicle sales in China and Hong
Kong during the first half of this year jumped 22.7 percent from a year
earlier, benefitting from a revival in the world's third-biggest economy. MORE
POCATELLO, ID-Nordic
Windpower USA Inc. is receiving a $16 million loan from the U.S. Department of
Energy to help it expand its assembly plant in southeastern Idaho. MORE
EVERETT, WA-Boeing
reportedly wants workers to promise they won’t go on strike before it commits
to keeping all the company’s 787 Dreamliner assembly work in Washington. MORE
KANSAS CITY, MO-Smith Electric Vehicles has begun training supervisors in Great Britain for its new Kansas City assembly plant, but has pushed back the scheduled start of operations by a month. Bryan Hansel, the CEO, said about a dozen employees were in Britain being trained to manage the facility, planned for a vacant building at Kansas City International Airport. SEV U.S. Corp. plans to assemble battery-powered delivery trucks and expects to hire 120 people during the first phase of operations. MORE
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