MCLEAN, VA-October U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $393.40 million, with spending for the first part of 2007 up 6.3 percent compared with 2006. MORE
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea's Kia Motors Corp. has opened a second plant in China as part of an ongoing effort to raise overseas production to more than one million vehicles a year by 2009. MORE
ANN ARBOR, MI-North American-based robotics suppliers posted gains of 33 percent in new orders to North American manufacturing companies in the first nine months of 2007. MORE
CHARLESTON, SC-Boeing Co. 's 787 will take at least four months more than expected to get off the ground, and Vought Aircraft Industries Inc., one of Boeing's major partners in the program, is a big reason why. MORE
AUBURN HILLS, MI-According to reports, Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli recently told a group of employees the automaker will lose $1.6 billion in 2007. MORE
JAKARTA, Indonesia-PT Komatsu Indonesia, a subsidiary of Japan-based heavy machinery manufacturer Komatsu Ltd., plans to invest some $100 million locally as it continues to expand its research and production capabilities. MORE
DETROIT-In an effort to reduce dealer inventories, General Motors Corp. will temporarily shut down a number of plants in Indiana, Michigan and Ontario, Canada, in early 2008. MORE
TOKYO-Although they have largely served as gimmicks up to this point, Toyota hopes to put its humanoid robots to practical use in hospitals, factories and homes by the end of this decade. MORE
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