DETROIT-A new wave of plant closings, layoffs and buyouts in the auto industry just as the general election campaign is beginning to heat up underscores the economy as a crucial issue in Michigan, Ohio and other hard-hit industrial states. MORE
POCA, W.Va.-Carbonoks, a manufacturer of mine safety products, will soon ramp up assembly of a new coal mine rescue chamber.
Pending government approval of the device, Carbonoks will begin assembling the Safe Haven rescue chamber at a facility in Poca, providing up to 90 jobs.
A Safe Haven unit travels with miners into the underground mine to provide a shelter in case of an emergency. It moves throughout the mine on skids or on a shuttle car. Up to 16 miners can retreat to the chamber and await rescue. The chamber is made of a unique material that can withstand high heat temperatures, is explosive resistant and is airtight. MORE
LOS ANGELES--If you want to keep making products in Orange County, there’s really only one way to make money doing so: automate.
The ability to cut down on labor hours by using automation equipment, software and robots long has been the ideal for factories. For most local manufacturing operations, it’s been the only way they could stay here and compete with cheaper production in Asia.
But now with the price of oil driving shipping costs higher and the weak dollar hitting imports, some companies who chose to move their factories to Asia are looking at automation as a substitute for Asian production and as a way to bring operations back here. MORE
WASHINGTON-U.S. factories saw their new orders rise in May for the third consecutive month, although this gain was driven mostly by increased orders for transportation goods and non-durable goods, the Commerce Department reported today. MORE
The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned a lower court's decision to award a former Honda employee thousands of dollars in punitive damages for being fired without cause.
In a 7-2 decision, the top court on Friday also reduced the amount of severance pay the employee received from 24 months worth of salary to 15 months.
Kevin Keays, who was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome a decade ago, was fired from a Honda assembly plant in Alliston, Ont., in March 2000, after he missed many days of work. MORE
ROANOKE, VA--An automotive components company is planning to open an assembly plant here, creating 60 jobs. The Westport Corp. will invest $3 million to open the 203,000-square-foot plant, which will assemble axles for the Volvo Heavy Truck plant in Dublin. MORE
SAO PAOLO, Brazil--Toyota Motor Corp. plans to invest more than $1 billion to build a new factory in Brazil's Sao Paulo state. The factory will assemble engines and small cars. MORE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided an Arlington aircraft manufacturing plant Thursday and arrested 32 undocumented workers.
Agents executed the search warrant at Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies, Inc., which supplies parts for both commercial and military aircraft, including the Boeing 737 and 777. MORE
GREENSBURG,IN--Manufacturing jobs are still key to the state's economic success, and there's no better or bigger example of that than the new Honda plant in Greensburg.
The $550 million plant in Decatur County is set to start production of the Honda Civic in the fall.
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