CONKLIN, NY—Universal Instruments’ pick-and-place equipment can now be equipped with official tooling to place LEDs and other semiconductor products from Cree Inc.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA—Trident Case, which makes cases for mobile electronics, plans to move 50 percent to 75 percent of its manufacturing operations from China to southern California in 2014.
BEIJING—Electronics manufacturer Foxconn has admitted that student interns worked overtime and night shifts at a factory in northeast China in violation of company policy.
BEIJING—Young people in China don’t want to work in factories, they want to work in services or at Internet companies, says Terry Gou, CEO of contract manufacturer Foxconn.
PARDUBICE, Czech Republic—Contract manufacturer Foxconn, which has been accused of exploiting workers at its Chinese assembly plants, is now facing similar charges at its assembly plant here.
NORTHBROOK, IL—Although 84 percent of manufacturers believe that consumer confidence in product safety is increasing, 58 percent of consumers believe manufacturers value sales over product safety, according to a new study by United Laboratories.
KENOSHA, WI—Kenall Manufacturing, which makes lighting products, is relocating its headquarters and assembly plant from Gurnee, IL, to a new assembly plant here. The move brings 225 new jobs to southeastern Wisconsin.
FORT WORTH, TX—Motorola has opened an assembly plant here to make its new smartphone—the first such device ever assembled in the United States. The facility will create 2,500 jobs.
WASHINGTON—Many U.S. companies aren’t counted as manufacturers by the government, but are still heavily involved in the manufacturing of goods, according to a new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The prevalence of these “factory-less goods producers”—Apple Inc. is a prime example—suggests that the country might have more manufacturing capabilities than official statistics suggest.