DETROIT—A former Cadillac plant here will be converted into a new apartment complex that will house some 90 individual apartments.

LOS ANGELES—Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of Lockheed Martin Corp., is investing in Machina Labs, a start-up company developing technology that combines AI and robotics to rapidly manufacture advanced sheet metal products.

RACINE, WI—After more than 260 days on strike, roughly 1,100 CNH Industrial workers in Wisconsin and Iowa are going back to work after a new contract was voted on and signed Jan. 21.

MEXICO CITY—Tesla is considering building an assembly plant about 2 miles from Felipe Angeles International Airport here.

EVERETT, WA—Boeing will add a fourth assembly line at its factory here to produce more 737 Max aircraft.

VALENCIA, Spain—Ford Motor Co.’s assembly plant here now gets a significant amount of its electricity from solar energy produced on site.

FLINT, MI—General Motors Co. plans to invest $918 million in four U.S. manufacturing sites, including $854 million to prepare these facilities to produce the company’s sixth generation small-block V-8 engine and an additional $64 million in Rochester, NY, and Defiance, OH, for castings and components to support EV production. These investments will enable the company to strengthen its full-size truck and SUV business and support the company’s growing EV product portfolio.

INCHEON, South Korea—Researchers at Incheon National University have developed a cost-effective, eco-friendly technique for making high-efficiency chalcopyrite solar cells. 

OYSTER BAY, NY—Advances in machine learning technology will help propel sales of smart cameras for machine vision applications to 197 million units and a total value of $35 billion by 2027, according to global technology intelligence firm ABI Research.