BAY MINETTE, AL-Chinese company Hybrid Kinetic Motors plans to construct a new green vehicle manufacturing plant here, bringing 5,000 jobs to the state. Initial production is expected to begin in 2013, with the first phase of 300,000 vehicles. MORE

BEIJING-China’s Aviation Industry Corp. plans to build a small business jet as well as a small piston airplane to complements its efforts in the area of commercial jetliners. MORE

GREENVILLE, SC-BMW plans to add another shift at its plant in South Carolina, the first sign of a turnaround following its earlier layoff of about 1,000 contract workers. MORE

POOLER, GA-Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas Inc. will locate a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility here, ultimately creating 500 jobs and investing $325 million. MORE

DETROIT-General Motors Co. will go to 24-hour operations at factories in Kansas, Michigan and Indiana to handle an expected increase in demand and to make up for production lost from a large-scale factory consolidation announced earlier in the year. The automaker says it will add a third shift at its Fairfax plant in Kansas City, KS, in January. That will be followed in March or April by third shifts at factories in Delta Township, MI, and Fort Wayne, IN. MORE

DEARBORN, MI-Ford Motor Co. will invest $490 million to build a new plant in China in conjunction with China’s Changan Ford Mazda Automobile company. MORE

TOGLIATTI, Russia-Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ plans to assemble a number of different Nissan models at its production facilities by 2012. MORE

INGERSOLL, ON-Workers at the booming CAMI auto assembly plant here have accepted a new contract that will freeze wages for almost four years and pensions for eight years, but assure production until late into the next decade. MORE

FLINT, MI-GM will invest more than $21 million in its Flint Assembly Plant to produce the 2011 Chevrolet light-duty crew cab. The investment will include renovating the existing heavy-duty assembly process and new machinery and tooling for light-duty trucks. MORE

FORT LUPTON, CO-A Denmark-based manufacturing company will bring as many as 150 jobs to a new plant here that will make components for the wind-power industry. Officials from Bach Composite Industry announced plans to locate their first North American manufacturing plant in Fort Lupton. MORE