SEOUL—SKC says it will build a 12,000 square-meter plant in Georgia by 2023 to produce a proprietary computing glass substrate for semiconductors. The material will significantly increase the performance and power efficiency of computer chipsets.

HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL—Automation equipment manufacturer Omron Automation Americas has opened a new proof-of-concept center near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, where integrators and manufacturers can develop and test automation before assembly-line implementation.

BALDWYN, MS—Automotive parts assembler Dr. Schneider Automotive Systems will build a new assembly plant here, creating up to 400 jobs during the course of six years.

WINDSOR, ON—Police have confirmed that they believe the explosion at Stellantis’s assembly plant here on Nov. 4 was “a deliberate act.”

LANSING, MI—General Motors will shut down its Delta Township plant for 11 weeks over the course of 2022 to get ready to build a new vehicle, the GMC Acadia SUV. GM is dedicating $100 million to the changes at the Delta plant, and by the new year workers will see those plans come to life.

CAMBRIDGE, MA—A team of scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new AI system that could give robots the same dexterity as people.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden—Volvo Group recently unveiled the world’s first vehicle—a load carrier used in mining and quarrying—made of steel produced without the use of fossil fuels.

GEORGETOWN, KY—Toyota is proposing a new $460.8 million expansion of its assembly plant here, already the company’s largest in the world.

DEARBORN, MI—Ford has notified 308 UAW members who work in Michigan and Ohio that they will be “immediately” changed from temporary to full-time status.

MOLINE, IL—Union workers at Deere & Co. would get wage increases of 10 percent in the first year and 5 percent each in the third and fifth years under a tentative contract reached between the farm-equipment maker and the United Auto Workers union.