ILION, NY-Remington Arms Co. plans to invest $5.9 million over the next two years in its 194-year-old firearms plant. The money will be earmarked for building improvements, in addition to new equipment and machinery. Remington will also add 100 jobs at the facility, as it relocates some production from North Haven, CT, to upstate New York. The company has been making shotguns and rifles in Ilion since 1816. MORE

JEFFERSON CITY, MO-Gov. Jay Nixon and Missouri House leaders are making a final push for incentives they say are important to keeping a Ford assembly plant in the Kansas City area. The legislation would let manufacturers keep half of the withholding taxes they normally would pay the state if they invest in factory improvements for a new product. MORE

SAGINAW, MI-GlobalWatt, Inc. of San Jose, California has selected KUKA Systems to be its supplier/equipment partner for the world’s first greenfield liquid encapsulant solar panel module line to be installed here. The initial semi-automated line is expected to cost under $10M and be operational by November 2010, with production to begin in the first quarter of 2011. MORE

PLEASANTON, CA-Adept Technology Inc. has received a $2.9 million order for high-precision robots from a manufacturer of consumer electronics in Southeast Asia. MORE

ASHLAND CITY, TN-A.O. Smith Water Products Co. has been forced to shift water heater production away from its assembly plant here, which was damaged by last week’s floods. MORE

WINDSOR, ON-Solar Source Corp. will locate a manufacturing facility here to produce crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels. The 45,000-square-foot facility will create 150 full-time jobs. MORE

LONG BEACH, CA-At midnight Monday, 1,700 workers who build the Boeing C-17 cargo plane here went on strike, after contract talks broke down earlier in the day. Many have worked at Boeing for 25 years. MORE

NEW YORK-Will an increase in manufacturing jobs mean a corresponding increase in environmental degradation? One analyst says no. MORE

CAMBRIDGE, ON-Aerospace supplier Centra Industries Inc. is investing more than $2.3 million to buy new equipment for its manufacturing facility here. MORE

OXFORD, MS-While Toyota’s much-touted Mississippi assembly plant sits idle, a construction company involved in the project has filed suit against the Japanese automaker. L&T Construction alleges Toyota owes for work it did at the plant in Blue Springs. MORE