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.

SPRING HILL, TN—A decade after announcing plans to build a new assembly plant in Chattanooga, TN, French automotive supplier Faurecia is continuing to expand in Tennessee with plans to invest another $18 million and add another 171 jobs at the company’s assembly plant in Spring Hill, TN.

LAS VEGAS—Electric-autonomous-vehicle manufacturer Nuro is investing $40 million in an end-of-line manufacturing facility and a closed-course test track to commercialize and scale production of its third-generation vehicle, the R2.

DELANO, MN—Contract manufacturer Solar Plastics LLC says that it is expanding its manufacturing capabilities into Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and will begin operations at a new plant there by the end of 2021.

HUNTSVILLE, AL—Northrop Grumman Corp. has renovated and opened an assembly facility here to support the U.S. Air Force’s Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program.

PALMDALE, CA—NASA has released a time-lapse video showing the progress Lockheed Martin (LM) has made in building NASA's X-59 QueSST test aircraft at LM's Skunk Works factory here.

ZURICH—Researchers from the Complex Materials Group at ETH Zurich university have developed a lightweight composite material that changes color as soon as it is deformed. The result of this color change, in effect, is the material inspects itself.

FLORHAM PARK, NJ—Emerson is donating regulators to students in the Texas Rocket Engineering Laboratory at The University of Texas for use in its Halycon bipropellant liquid propulsion rocket, hoping to set a new height record.

PARIS—Nine French software companies focused on Industry 4.0 have joined together to create The Industrial Alliance Consortium, designed to help manufacturers efficiently digitalize their factories and build the Industry of the Future.

CARLSBAD, CA—Machine Builder and integrator MiQ Partners is expanding its production space here by 17,000 square feet to meet the increasing automation needs of west coast manufacturers in many industries.