HUNTSVILLE, AL—On Monday, Mazda Toyota Manufacturing unveiled the all-new Mazda CX-50, which will be built at the company’s manufacturing facility here starting in January 2022.
SEOUL—SKC says it will build a 12,000 square-meter plant in Georgia by 2023 to produce a proprietary computing glass substrate for semiconductors. The material will significantly increase the performance and power efficiency of computer chipsets.
HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL—Automation equipment manufacturer Omron Automation Americas has opened a new proof-of-concept center near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, where integrators and manufacturers can develop and test automation before assembly-line implementation.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden—Volvo Group recently unveiled the world’s first vehicle—a load carrier used in mining and quarrying—made of steel produced without the use of fossil fuels.
LAS VEGAS—Electric-autonomous-vehicle manufacturer Nuro is investing $40 million in an end-of-line manufacturing facility and a closed-course test track to commercialize and scale production of its third-generation vehicle, the R2.
DELANO, MN—Contract manufacturer Solar Plastics LLC says that it is expanding its manufacturing capabilities into Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and will begin operations at a new plant there by the end of 2021.
HUNTSVILLE, AL—Northrop Grumman Corp. has renovated and opened an assembly facility here to support the U.S. Air Force’s Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program.
PALMDALE, CA—NASA has released a time-lapse video showing the progress Lockheed Martin (LM) has made in building NASA's X-59 QueSST test aircraft at LM's Skunk Works factory here.
ZURICH—Researchers from the Complex Materials Group at ETH Zurich university have developed a lightweight composite material that changes color as soon as it is deformed. The result of this color change, in effect, is the material inspects itself.