MOLINE, IL—A new economic study by the Illinois Manufacturer's Association shows the manufacturing industry in Illinois generates more than $300 billion in output each year, and that the average manufacturing salary in Rock Island County is more than $76,000.
CIBOLO, TX—A supplier for Toyota and other automakers is expected to break ground in September on a new assembly plant here that will provide 900 full-time jobs.
MOBILE, AL—Airbus has begun manufacturing A220 aircraft at its assembly plant here, a key milestone in growth plans that will see the company add a second assembly line and hire more than 400 new workers at the site.
AUBURN HILLS, MI—Flint, MI, and Greensboro, NC, are among the cities in contention to land Mahindra Automotive North America’s second U.S. assembly plant.
LEXINGTON, TN–Containment systems manufacturer S. Bravo Systems, also known as Bravo, announced on Monday it plans to open a second manufacturing facility in western Tennessee.
GREENSBORO, NC– Last week, Honda Aircraft Co. broke ground on its 82,000-square-foot building here–a $15.5 million expansion to the company’s Research and Development campus at Piedmont Triad International Airport.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced two winners for the final prize of the American Inventions Made Onshore (AIM Onshore) Prize Competition.
STUTTGART, Germany—Porsche recently unveiled its new Bioconcept-Car, built primarily with organic materials and help from researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, who have discovered how to reduce component weight by substituting with carbon fibers.
WASHINGTON—The latest Bureau of Economic Analysis data find that U.S. manufacturers produced $2.3852 trillion worth of goods in the first quarter of 2019, up from $2.3845 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2018.