FLIPPIN, AR-Ranger Boats is investing $13 million to expand its assembly plant here, creating 115 jobs. MORE

DETROIT-Some workers at GM’s Lake Orion assembly plant now say the two-tier wage system at the plant is unfair. MORE

SHANGHAI-China’s land ministry has fined automaker BYD Co., a company backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and seized buildings and equipment from a construction site where it was building a new assembly plant in northern China. MORE

TOKYO-Panasonic has introduced a new parallel-link robot for factory automation. MORE

SPARTANBURG, SC-Forklifts, tuggers and stackers at BMW’s new Assembly North facility are powered by hydrogen. MORE

BOSTON-Massachusetts’ robotics industry is working on new machines that will bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. MORE

Gov. Jim Doyle yesterday announced $4.85 million in combined state funding for TecStar Manufacturing Company in Germantown, WI, and McCain Foods USA Inc. in Plover, WI, for expansions that will create or retain more than 1,000 jobs in Wisconsin. MORE

Wisconsin manufacturers have a new online destination to learn about high impact strategies to grow and improve their businesses, the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP) announced yesterday. MORE

POPLAR BLUFF, MO-Three men are charged with making bomb threats at the Nordyne assembly plant here. Police say that a company employee asked one of his roommates to call the plant and make the threat so the employee could take the rest of the night off. MORE

WINDSOR, ON-European solar company Siliken SA will locate a new factory here. The factory is expected to be in full production by the middle of next year and employ 175 people. MORE