LOUISVILLE, KY-Kentuckiana Curb announced this week that it is investing $2.5 million to expand its plant here and will add 50 full-time manufacturing jobs. More

LINCOLN, AL-At Honda’s assembly plant here, workers don’t just build cars. They also build the equipment that helps build those cars. The Japanese automaker last year opened an on-site high-tech engineering facility, where specialized production tools are designed, developed and manufactured. MORE

BETHLEHEM, PA-Eight of the top 10 best-paid college majors are in engineering, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. MORE

NEW YORK-Manufacturing in the New York region expanded in March for an eighth straight month, indicating factories are sustaining production and lifting the U.S. economy. MORE

HICKORY, NC-Turbotec Products Inc., a manufacturer of heat exchangers and heat-transfer products, will move the bulk of its operations from Connecticut to Hickory, NC, adding 73 jobs and investing $6.5 million in the next three years. MORE

ROCHESTER, NY-Harris Corp. plans to build a new state-of-the-art manufacturing and logistics facility here for assembling tactical and public safety radio systems. MORE

INDIANAPOLIS-For the first time since before the Civil War and perhaps ever, more people in Indiana work in government than in all the factories in the state. Rocked by layoffs, imports and automation, workers in Indiana plants numbered 430,800 in January, while government at all levels, including schools and publicly owned hospitals, employed 442,800 workers. MORE

HOLLAND, MI-LG Chem will build a $303 million lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility here that could create more than 400 jobs by 2013. Initially, the plant will make cells for the all-electric Chevrolet Volt. LG Chem estimates that over 50 people will be hired and trained in advance of the plant being operational, and more than 400 jobs could be created by 2013. MORE

LAWRENCEBURG, TN-Modine Manufacturing Co. plans to relocate equipment to a facility near its existing manufacturing plant in Lawrenceburg. MORE

RALEIGH, NC-Siemens plans to add hundreds of jobs as it expands a North Carolina unit into a global production hub for a type of gas-powered turbine for electric utility plants. The company plans to invest $135 million and create 825 engineering and manufacturing jobs in five years. MORE