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.

KANSAS CITY, MO—Adrian Steel, a manufacturer of equipment for commercial vans and trucks, is investing $4.7 million to build a new assembly plant here. The facility is expected to create 39 new jobs.

DETROIT—GM is planning to invest about $332 million at four of its U.S. powertrain assembly plants to produce new engines and transmissions.

TORONTO—The Canadian Auto Workers has temporarily suspended negotiations with GM over a new contract for hourly workers at the carmaker’s CAMI assembly plant.

DEARBORN, MI—Ford Motor Co. will expand its 3-Wet paint process to four more plants across three continents in 2013. The high-solids, solvent-borne process applies three layers of paint, including primer, base coat and clear coat, while each layer is still wet.

LANCASTER, CA—Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) will begin constructing a new assembly plant here next month to produce electric buses.

NORDLINGEN, Germany—Six-axis robots and a rotary indexing table are the heart of a high-speed automated assembly system that produces 200,000 automotive sensors daily.

AUBURN HILLS, MI—Chrysler sold 171,606 units in March, a 5 percent increase compared with sales in March 2012 and the automaker’s best monthly total since December 2007.

WASHINGTON—New orders for durable goods increased $12.4 billion or 5.7 percent in February to $232.1 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday. Orders have increased five of the past six months.

America’s manufacturing sector gained 14,000 jobs in February, according to the latest data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.