SCHWALBACH, Germany-Siemens VDO Automotive Corp. is acquiring the electric drive company Ballard Power Systems Corp., a subsidiary of Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Burnaby, Canada).
ANN ARBOR, MI-The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) is now accepting nominations for the 2007 Engelberger Robotics Awards, to be presented in Rosemont, IL, during the 38th International Symposium on Robotics, part of the International Robots & Vision Show, June 12-14.
WESTLAKE, OH-Nordson Corp. is acquiring UK-based Dage Holdings Ltd. (Aylesbury, England), a manufacturer of test and inspection equipment used in the semiconductor and printed circuit board industries.
MCLEAN, VA-Machine tool sales to U.S. manufacturers totaled $407.21 million in September, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association and The Association For Manufacturing Technology.
WASHINGTON-The National Association of Manufacturers' (NAM) "2006 Small Manufacturers Operating Survey" is showing that member companies anticipate solid growth in the months ahead, thanks to strong sales and increases in exports and capital investment.
MONTGOMERY, AL-Employees at Lear Corp.'s Montgomery automotive seat manufacturing plant recently took some time off from work to celebrate their new status as ASSEMBLY magazine's 2006 Assembly Plant of the Year.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam-Computer chip manufacturer Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) will increase the size of the assembly and test facility it is building in Vietnam from 150,000 square feet to 500,000 square feet, in the process raising its total investment in the country to $1 billion.
MUNICH-Siemens VDO Automotive is acquiring 51 percent of automotive supplier AVTEL (Kuluga, Russia), a joint venture made up of the Russian companies Avtoelectronica and NPP ELCAR.
Worldwide sales of hybrid-electric vehicles will increase to 4 million units annually by 2015, according to a report by the market research firm The Freedonia Group Inc. (Cleveland).