Hard at work within Shelbourne Rey-nolds Engineering’s Suffolk, UK, manufacturing plant are nearly 100 assemblers and the latest equipment to build attachments for articulated hedge cutting tractors.
HUTCHINSON, KS—The Siemens wind turbine nacelle assembly plant here expects to resume full operations within the next week. The company had furloughed about 60 workers last week because some of the parts needed to make wind turbines were delayed at docks along the West Coast.
LOS ANGELES—After years of avoiding confrontation, the U.S. labor movement is reasserting itself. From the car plants of Detroit to the ports of Los Angeles, unions are demanding payback for sacrifices they say helped revive the economy.
When Dennis Kubica founded Kubica Corp. 20 years ago, he had an electrical engineering degree from the University of Michigan-Dearborn—and plenty of real world experience as an engineer, a research and development specialist, and a project manager for ABB, General Motors and Motor City Electric.
TROY, IL—As Caterpillar considers moving 230 jobs to Mexico from its manufacturing plant here, local leaders are trying to determine what can be done to keep the work in town.
CLEVELAND—Four North American assembly plants are among the six factories named as Industry Week magazine’s “Best Plants.” The six factories are Boston Scientific (Maple Grove, MN); Cessna Mexico (Chihuahua, Mexico); L.B. Foster Rail Technologies Corp. (Vancouver, BC); General Cable Corp. (Marion, IN); The Raymond Corp. (Greene, NY); and T&S Brass and Bronze Works (Travelers Rest, SC).
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