AUGUSTA, GA—Textron Specialized Vehicles, the company behind E-Z-GO golf carts, plans to build a new assembly plant here and add up to 400 jobs. The $40 million facility will be built on a 238-acre site near the’ existing Augusta plant.
MARNE, MI—Metal fabrication shop DeWys Manufacturing Inc. has developed a robotic cell that automatically installs up to eight self-clinching fasteners in sheet metal.
TOKYO—Toyota has resumed operations at all vehicle assembly and parts plants in Japan after its longest domestic production suspension since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
CHARLESTON, SC—Volvo’s decision to open its first U.S. assembly plant in Berkeley County is likely to lure other businesses from the Swedish automaker’s home country. Nearly two dozen of Sweden’s automotive parts suppliers visited South Carolina last week to meet with executives at Volvo and other manufacturers as part of a campaign to expand the burgeoning Swedish car parts industry to other countries.
LAS VEGAS, NV—A second electric car company is planning to build an assembly plant in southern Nevada, and it’s further along in development than Faraday Future. Executives with 2050 Motors, which is showing two car models in Las Vegas this week, are evaluating sites to build a plant in the state.
INDIANAPOLIS—Two Indiana assembly plants that make products for the heating, ventilating and air conditioning industry are shifting their manufacturing operations to Mexico, which will cost about 2,100 workers their jobs, company officials announced Wednesday.
WICHITA, KS—Spirit AeroSystems, which assembles the fuselages for the Boeing 737, is planning to boost production to meet Boeing’s goal of producing 57 jets per month.
No matter which method you use to assemble plastic parts, you would have found the latest technologies at The ASSEMBLY Show. There were at least 10 suppliers of plastics joining equipment on the show floor, including first-time exhibitors Rinco Ultrasonics and Thermal Press International Inc.
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