HAGERSTOWN, MD—It’s often said that if you really want to find ways to improve your business, ask an employee. At the Volvo truck assembly plant here, employee suggestions have yielded “significant savings.”
SMYRNA, TN—A worker at Nissan’s assembly plant here was rushed to the hospital Saturday after breaking his leg while repairing a piece of heavy equipment.
SACRAMENTO, CA—Siemens Rail Systems has begun a push to diversify the products it assembles here, positioning itself to make trolley cars, locomotives, subway cars, train coaches and bullet trains.
For the past century, the Kostal Group has developed and manufactured electronic and electromechanical products from its headquarters in Lüdenscheid, Germany.
FINDLAY, OH—MITEC Powertrain Inc. has opened its $24 million assembly plant here. Producing 1,500 powertrain parts daily, the facility will employ 135 people by 2017.
CHATTANOOGA, TN—At VW’s assembly plant here, employees are checked for their cardiovascular fitness and complete three weeks of physical fitness training to be “industrial athletes.”