TURIN, Italy—Comau UK and IIika plc are collaborating on a 12-month project to design the scale up of Ilika’s solid-state battery manufacturing capacity at its lab-based facility in Romsey, UK.

BRUSSELS—Solvay, L’Oréal, and Ultimaker are sponsoring the third edition of its international Additive Manufacturing Cup competition, which begins September 1 and runs through mid-November.

LUDLOW, MA—Meredith-Springfield Associates Inc., a plastics manufacturer specializing in blow-molded bottles, recently broke ground to add 5,000 square feet of light manufacturing space to its plant here.

MALTA, NY—GlobalFoundries has announced plans to expand production at its existing semiconductor facility here and build a new facility to double the site’s current capacity and help address the global chip shortage.

WASHINGTON—Manufacturing activity in the U.S. remained robust in July, but slowed somewhat compared with previous months due to supply chain strains, reports the Institute for Supply Management in its latest Manufacturing Report on Business Purchasing Managers' Index.

NÖRDLINGEN, Germany—VARTA AG has opened a new lithium-ion-cell factory here with 15,000 square meters of production space on two floors. New customer orders are already being processed.

PITTSBURGH—Wabtec Corp. recently started operations at Neighborhood 91, an additive manufacturing production facility at Pittsburgh International Airport’s Innovation Campus.

BEIJING—On September 1, a new cybersecurity law in China takes effect that tightens rules on how data can be collected and shared with third parties in the automotive and other industries.

STUTTGART, Germany—Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz brand plans to become all-electric by the end of this decade. Shifting from electric-first to electric-only, the car company is accelerating toward an emissions-free and software-driven future.