LOS ANGELES-Chinese solar panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. plans to establish a manufacturing facility in the United States, though it has yet to choose a location. Suntech CEO Zhenrong Shi said the company’s decision to set up a U.S. plant was due to strong growth in demand from U.S. utilities and federal incentives for solar power. MORE
WOODSTOCK, Ontario-When Toyota opened its newest North American assembly plant here last fall, it was chock full of the company’s very latest thinking and innovations for building a car efficiently.
But with the global automobile industry mired in its worst crisis in a quarter-century, even Toyota's latest standards for lean manufacturing are not good enough. Now, employees have been charged with finding upward of $100 million in annual savings from the Woodstock factory and a nearby plant in Cambridge. MORE
WAPATO, WA-Ashland Performance Materials, Amtech Corp. and Endurance Wind Power are collaborating to produce wind turbine blades at Amtech’s manufacturing facility here. MORE
ALBUQUERQUE, NM-Schott Solar dedicated a $100 million solar equipment manufacturing plant here on Monday. The facility will manufacture solar panels aimed at businesses and consumers. It will also make solar concentrator receivers, a piece of equipment for utility-scale solar thermal installations. MORE
TUVE, Sweden-Volvo Group CEO Leif Johansson ran into a hostile reception at the Volvo truck plant here. Disgruntled plant workers heckled and booed the CEO as he stood on a truck to address workers. Volvo plans to lay off 16,255 workers by the end of 2009. MORE
OPP, AL-New high-tech, good paying jobs are coming to Alabama. This week, MFG Galileo Composites Corp. (Reno, NV) announced it would be relocating to Opp. The company manufactures custom-designed radomes for civilian and military use. MORE
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