FLETCHER, NC-Continental Teves is expanding and
looking to hire 100 people in the next seven months for positions ranging from
assembly line workers to engineers. MORE
STATESBORO, GA-Great Dane will locate its new
refrigerated trailer plant here, company officials have announced. The manufacturing
facility will produce 5,000-plus trailers annually and employ more than 400
workers when it opens in 2012. MORE
MISHAWAKA, IN- AM General plans to continue
building Humvees into next year at a northern Indiana factory despite U.S.
military plans to move on to a new tactical vehicle. MORE
JOHANNESBURG-The National Union of Metalworkers
of South Africa went on strike on Tuesday after the Automobile Manufacturers
Employers Organisation refused workers' demands for a 15% wage increase. MORE
SONOMA COUNTY, CA-Small manufacturing plants in the North Bay Area are in demand, due to a new generation of medical devices and personal electronics. MORE
WASHINGTON,
DC-The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed new rules mandating
factories and power plants obtain permits to greenhouse gases. The greenhouse
gas permits would initially be required of new and modified factory and power
plant sources. MORE
CHATTANOOGA, TN-A
Chinese group in October will travel here in October to check out Volkswagen’s
plant, which will serve as the model for factories the automaker is building in
that vast market, officials said. MORE