Items Tagged with 'Oregon manufacturing'

WASHINGTON—Manufacturing accounts for 28.7 percent of Oregon’s gross state product, the highest percentage in the country, according to the latest statistics from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis.

PORTLAND, OR—Daimler Trucks North America will expand its headquarters here after state and city officials offered nearly $20 million in incentives.

SWAN ISLAND, OR—Union workers at Daimler’s truck assembly plant here have gone on strike after rejecting a $1.30 per hour pay raise. The union had been seeking a $1.95 increase.

PORTLAND, OR—Morgan Corp. has opened a new truck body assembly plant here.

TALENT, OR—Brammo Inc. will convert an old Walmart building here into an assembly plant that will make electric motorcycles and employ 130 people.