WINSTON-SALEM, NC-Workers at the Dell assembly plant here will get a third extension before the plant closes. The plant is now scheduled to close in October 2010. MORE
LYONS, PA-One person suffered smoke inhalation when a fire erupted in the dust collection system at East Penn Manufacturing Co. Inc. here Thursday night. The plant assembles lead-acid batteries. MORE
NEWBERRY, SC-Caterpillar plans to more than triple employment at its four-year-old diesel generator plant here. Within four years, the company expects to add up to 500 workers to the 190 already employed at the plant. MORE
CLEVELAND-In a sign that economic activity is increasing, almost half of North American metalforming companies expect their orders to rise during the next three months, according to the latest report from the Precision Metalforming Association. MORE
PITTSBURGH-Alcoa is jointly testing an advanced solar technology with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab. The goal of the project is to make concentrating solar power technology competitive in the United States by lowering its cost to generate energy. MORE
DETROIT-GM wants to pay factory workers making advanced technology items for electric cars less than $14 per hour-lower than a controversial second-tier wage reached in the 2007 national contract. MORE
GUANGZHOU, China-Many factory bosses in southern China’s Pearl River Delta-the nation’s biggest manufacturing base-are complaining about a severe shortage of workers. MORE
OTTAWA, ON-Canadian factory sales rose four times as much as expected in January to the highest level since November 2008. Helped by rebounding demand from the United States., exports will add 1.9 percentage points to Canadian growth this year and 2.1 points next year. MORE
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