WASHINGTON, D.C — President Donald Trump last Wednesday signed into law a major rewrite of the rules of trade with Canada and Mexico that will soon replace the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement.
BANGALORE, INDIA — CIS Global offiicials recently celebrated the grand opening of its newest power distribution unit manufacturing facility in Bangalore, India.
DETROIT, MI —Dakkota Integrated Systems, a company that supplies assembly and sequencing services for the OEM automotive market, plans to construct and operate a 300,000 square-foot manufacturing facility on a portion of the former Kettering High School and Rose Elementary School sites in Detroit, Michigan.
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN – Purdue University innovators have created a hybrid technique to fabricate a new form of nickel that may help the future production of lifesaving medical devices, high-tech devices and vehicles with strong corrosion-resistant protection. The Purdue technique involves a process where high-yield electrodeposition is applied on certain conductive substrates.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Cruise LLC, the autonomous-vehicle unit of General Motors Co., has introduced a self-driving, all-electric, ride-sharing shuttle it built in partnership with GM and Honda Motor. The Cruise Origin will be built at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant
BRUSSELS – Toyota Motor Europe recently announced it reached 100 percent renewable electricity use across all its European operations and facilities in 2019.
LEXINGTON, TN —Adient, a leading automotive seating manufacturer and supplier, has announced that it will invest $23.5 million to expand its manufacturing facility here.
BOGOTA, NJ — Jesco Iron Craft Inc. (Jescraft), a material handling equipment manufacturer, has announced that it will open a new manufacturing facility in Oxford, CT, with an anticipated opening date of March 2020.
ROYALTON, VT— GW Plastics Inc. has completed a 30,000-square-foot expansion of its manufacturing and technology center here to accommodate the growth in thermoplastic injection molding and medical device contract assembly business.
HIGH POINT, NC — China-based upholstery manufacturer KUKA HOME is expanding its global manufacturing footprint with a new plant in Monterrey, Mexico. The new facility will focus on special-order stationary upholstery for the North American market.