NEWPORT NEWS, VA-Canon USA has opened a 700,000-square-foot assembly plant here. Equipped with high-speed, automated assembly machines, the plant will produce cartridges for laser printers. MORE
LITTLETON, CO-A small company here is making plans to build a plant to manufacture fuel cells, which use hydrogen to generate up to 10 kilowatts of power - more than twice as much as the average residential solar system. “We’re about six to 12 months away from making decisions on where, how and when to build a manufacturing plant,” said Bob Stokes, CEO of Versa Power Systems Inc. MORE
WICHITA, KS-State and Wichita-area officials are trying to figure out how suspension of the Citation Columbus business jet affects public assistance for Cessna Aircraft to build a new assembly plant. The state, Sedgwick County and the city of Wichita last year approved more than $70 million in cash assistance and tax breaks to help facilitate development of the Columbus plant, which was expected to create 1,000 jobs. MORE
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario-ArvinMeritor Inc. has opened a new 10,000-square-foot facility here for Mascot Truck Parts. ArvinMeritor owns Mascot, a remanufacturer of transmissions, axle carriers and steering gears. The new facility will ship more than 1,200 transmissions and axle carriers every month. MORE
NEW YORK-In April, manufacturing in
the United States contracted at its slowest pace in six months after a collapse
in inventories caused orders to steady. MORE
OTTAWA, Ontario-A proposal making the rounds here envisions the country emerging from the upheaval in the auto industry with a new carmaker as Canadian as maple syrup or the BlackBerry-and with an assembly plant in Fredericton, of all places. But, the very thought of a New Brunswick-made car conjures visions of gull-wing doors, lime green paint and huge losses-the Bricklin. MORE
DETROIT-The world’s automakers may not be building many new assembly
plants there, but there is a reason why Toyota, Honda, Hyundai-Kia and Nissan
all have major tech centers in Southeast Michigan. MORE
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