MCLEAN, VA-Machine tool sales to U.S. manufacturers totaled $407.21 million in September, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association and The Association For Manufacturing Technology.
WASHINGTON-The National Association of Manufacturers' (NAM) "2006 Small Manufacturers Operating Survey" is showing that member companies anticipate solid growth in the months ahead, thanks to strong sales and increases in exports and capital investment.
MONTGOMERY, AL-Employees at Lear Corp.'s Montgomery automotive seat manufacturing plant recently took some time off from work to celebrate their new status as ASSEMBLY magazine's 2006 Assembly Plant of the Year.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam-Computer chip manufacturer Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) will increase the size of the assembly and test facility it is building in Vietnam from 150,000 square feet to 500,000 square feet, in the process raising its total investment in the country to $1 billion.
MUNICH-Siemens VDO Automotive is acquiring 51 percent of automotive supplier AVTEL (Kuluga, Russia), a joint venture made up of the Russian companies Avtoelectronica and NPP ELCAR.
Worldwide sales of hybrid-electric vehicles will increase to 4 million units annually by 2015, according to a report by the market research firm The Freedonia Group Inc. (Cleveland).
PONTIAC, MI-The Detroit News is reporting that a robot killed a 46-year-old man by pulling him into some machinery at a press plant owned by automotive supplier HydroDynamic Technologies Inc.
ANN ARBOR, MI-The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) is now accepting nominations for the 2007 Engelberger Robotics Awards, to be presented in Rosemont, IL, during the 38th International Symposium on Robotics and International Robots & Vision Show, June 12-14, 2007.
SEOUL, South Korea-Kia Motors Corp. has begun construction on its first-ever U.S. manufacturing facility, in West Point, GA. The $1 billion automotive assembly plant is central to Kia's long-term plans to increase North American sales to around 650,000 vehicles by 2010.
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