WASHINGTON--Lockheed Martin has proposed to relocate production of the F-16 from Forth Worth, TX, to India if the country decides to buy a large number of jets. Indian defense contractor Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. would perform final assembly of the aircraft.
RED OAK, IA--H&H Trailers, a division of Novae Corp., is expanding its manufacturing operations to a facility here. Company officials say the expansion will add 50,000 square feet of production space to the company's current Iowa manufacturing footprint.
FORT PIERCE, FL--Maverick Boat Group broke ground here last week on a new, state-of-the-art 106,000 square-foot facility where its Cobia line of boats will be built. The company will add more than 100 new jobs and already employs 287 local workers.
SKOVDE, Sweden--Volvo has revealed that its engine factory here has achieved the feat of going entirely carbon neutral. The announcement represents the first hurdle towards the company’s ambitious plan to make its entire global operations climate neutral by 2025.
MONTGOMERY, AL—Mazda and Toyota have selected Huntsville, AL, as the site of their new joint-venture assembly plant. The $1.6 billion factory will have the capacity to build 300,000 vehicles annually and is expected to create up to 4,000 jobs.
WARREN, MI—FCA US LLC will invest more than $1 billion to modernize its assembly plant here to produce the next-generation Ram Heavy Duty pickup, which will be shifted from Saltillo, Mexico, starting in 2020. The move is expected to create 2,500 jobs.
NEWBERRY, SC—South Carolina and Samsung officials on Friday celebrated the first washing machines made at the company’s first U.S. appliance assembly plant. The event came less than seven months after officials announced plans to locate in Newberry, invest $380 million in a former Caterpillar factory and create 1,000 jobs by 2020.
MARTORELL, Spain—Some 125 automated guided vehicles share the workspace every day with 7,000 employees at SEAT’s assembly plant here. The AGVs transport 23,800 parts daily and cover a distance of 436,000 kilometers every year, equivalent to the distance between Earth and the Moon.
BUFFALO, NY--Tesla Inc. has kicked off production of its long-awaited electricity-producing shingles that Elon Musk says will transform the rooftop solar industry. Manufacturing of the photovoltaic glass tiles began last month at a factory here built with backing from New York State, the company said in an email Tuesday.
TOULOUSE, France--The first structurally complete airframe for the new Airbus BelugaXL has rolled out from its assembly hangar here, the manufacturer said Tuesday. Based on an A330-200F airframe, the planned fleet of five BelugaXLs will provide 30 percent more transport capacity than the Beluga-600XTs they will replace.
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