RIVERSIDE, CA-MP RV, a Moreno Valley-based company that tried to enter the electric car market last year, plans to hire hundreds of workers to staff two former Fleetwood Enterprises plants here. MORE

ONTARIO, CANADA-Canadian Solar says it expects to open one of North America's largest solar manufacturing facilities here early next year. MORE

COLUMBUS, OH-The Edison Welding Institute (EWI) has created a new Passenger Rail Manufacturing Center. MORE

PEORIA, IL-Caterpillar Inc. plans to build a 600,000-square-foot excavator assembly plant in Victoria, TX. MORE

SALINAS, CA-An electric car company Green Vehicles has received a $2 million grant from the California Energy Commission to expand manufacturing and establish an assembly line that could produce up to 2,000 cars per year. MORE

CHATTANOOGA, TN-Volkswagen's all-new, $1-billion manufacturing facility here is nearing completion. The Passat replacement will be the first car built, and plans are already in place to build another model at the facility. MORE

WASHINGTON-President Obama is expected to sign a bill today that will help U.S. manufacturers. MORE

CHICAGO-Boeing engineers are addressing new “manufacturing issues” related to the long-delayed 787 Dreamliner. MORE

INDIANAPOLIS, IN-Positron Corp. announced Wednesday the opening of a cGMP ready (current good manufacturing practices) facility in Indiana for the manufacturing of both radioactive and non-radioactive pharmaceutical products and devices. MORE

KANSAS CITY, MO-By 2012, Ford Motor Co. expects to create nearly 2,000 hourly jobs within its U.S. plants by doing less outsourcing, the automaker said recently. MORE