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.

DIXON, IL—BorgWarner plans to invest $9.4 million in its assembly plant here over the next three years.

ROCHELLE, IL—Nippon Sharyo USA has completed its rail car assembly plant here and will hire an additional 90 employees, bringing total employment at the facility to nearly 500.

CHICAGO—An innovative plan to turn a former window manufacturing plant here into a national laboratory dedicated to the burgeoning field of digital manufacturing inched closer to reality Tuesday.

ITASCA, IL—Mobile Mark Inc., a manufacturer of antennas, has opened a new 50,000-square-foot assembly plant here.

SCHAUMBURG, IL—Sunstar Americas Inc., a manufacturer of oral health care products, is building a new manufacturing facility here that could employ 400 people.

CHICAGO—Ford’s assembly plant here lost power for about an hour yesterday. Commonwealth Edison Co. could not determine what caused the outage.

ROCHELLE, IL—Nippon Sharyo’s passenger railcar assembly plant here will undergo a $54 million expansion, creating about 80 permanent local jobs.

PARIS, IL—North American Lighting Inc., which makes automotive lighting, plans invest $50 million to expand its assembly plant here and create 300 jobs.

STREATOR, IL—Stertil-Koni, a manufacturer of heavy-duty vehicle lifts, is adding cutting machines, overhead cranes and other new equipment at its assembly plant here.