MANKATO, MN—Rolls-Royce has announced a $13.9 million investment in its Power Systems business unit for a multi-phase expansion of its power generation manufacturing facility here.
BOSTON—Desktop Metal has been awarded a three-year, multimillion dollar grant from the Department of Defense to develop a high-volume 3D printing process that makes complex parts from a new cobalt-free hard metal without the use of tooling.
MONTGOMERY, AL—Denmark-based Mountain Top Industries, a manufacturer of aluminum roll covers for pickup trucks, recently announced its expansion into the U.S. market with the opening of a 73,000 square-foot manufacturing facility here.
HAMBURG, Germany—Engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation are working with Airbus to learn how to detect and predict disruptions in aircraft production.
FRANKFURT, Germany—The World Robotics 2020 Industrial Robots report presented by the International Federation of Robotics shows a record of 2.7 million industrial robots operating in factories around the world. This total represents an increase of 12 percent from 2019.
TROY, MI—NAI, a manufacturer of custom interconnects, recently announced the opening of a new manufacturing plant in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. The facility will produce interconnect devices, including cable assemblies, harnesses and box builds.
COLLEGE STATION, TX—Three-dimensional printing material supplier EOS has partnered with the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to provide a professional development program in industrial 3D printing.
SHANGHAI, China—Huawei is planning to build its own chipset factory here as a way to circumvent the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision in August that prohibits U.S. suppliers from providing semiconductor products and components to Huawei and its subsidiaries. The factory will make parts for its telecom hardware business.
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