CICERO, NY-Empire State Development has approved a $600,000 grant for G.A. Braun Inc., a manufacturer of industrial equipment for the laundry and textile markets. The company will use the grant to help build a 150,000-square-foot assembly facility. MORE

WINDSOR, Ontario-An economist with the Canadian Auto Workers union says his group plans to make it worth carmakers' while to keep production in Canada rather than move it back to the United States. MORE

BEIJING-China has at least 20 million unemployed migrant workers who have lost their jobs because of the impact of the global economic crisis. MORE

BMW Manufacturing Co. is considering another green source of energy for its plant. The Greer plant, which gets well over half of the energy needed to generate electricity from methane gas at a landfill nine miles away, is partnering with Gold Ring Power LLC to study using wind energy at its campus off Interstate 85 and State 101. An energy audit will gather data on wind speed and patterns at the plant site. MORE

LEXINGTON, NC-Hundreds of people have applied for 328 new jobs at ASCO Power Technologies. ASCO plans to invest $11.4 million in its Welcome, NC, plant, which assembles power switching and control products for back-up electrical systems. MORE

BEIJING-Even as it grapples with slowing growth and rising unemployment, China is continuing to push for cleaner development and may even step up efforts to tackle climate change. MORE

BEIJING-China’s Geely Holding Group Co. says it has no plans to buy assets from General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and other overseas automakers as it battles tumbling domestic demand. MORE

TIPTON, IN-A central Indiana county is demanding that Chrysler return $5.5 million in county-issued bonds and repay at least $4.5 million it set aside for a sprawling transmission plant that a Chrysler supplier stopped building last year. Chrysler is refusing to repay the bonds and money the county had approved for the $530 million Getrag Transmission Manufacturing plant. MORE

SUFFOLK, VA-A new aerospace and defense manufacturing facility will be built in here later this year, bringing nearly 200 jobs to the city by 2014. SPARTA Composite Products plans to open the $13.2 million, 67,000-square-foot manufacturing center by December. MORE

DETROIT-The world's biggest wind-turbine makers say they are continuing to develop their U.S. supply chains in spite of the current recession. MORE