CHARLOTTE, NC—Imperial Brown, a leading manufacturer of custom walk-in coolers and freezers, will open a manufacturing plant in Tucson, AZ, in 2023 at the city's Airport Distribution Center.

DETROIT—General Motors and Ford are again reducing production at their North American assembly plants due to a shortage of semiconductor chips.

SAVAGE, MN—Beckhoff Automation has opened a new office in the Denver area.

LOS ALAMITOS, CA—Epson Robots has signed Advanced Industrial Products (AIP), an award-winning factory automation and robotics supplier, as an official distributor Kentucky and West Virginia.

TELFORD, TN—A South Korean auto parts supplier will locate its first U.S. assembly plant here.

ARLINGTON, TX—Wallbox, a manufacturer of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment, will build its first U.S. assembly plant here.

COOKEVILLE, TN—Systems integrator ATC Automation has acquired West Coast systems integrator Dynamic Automation and Robotics.

HETHEL, UK— British sports car manufacturer Lotus has refurbished and modernized its assembly plant here with the help of The Dürr Group.

BEDFORD, MA—Novanta Inc., a manufacturer of drives, motors, encoders and actuators, has acquired Schneider Electric Motion USA Inc. (SEM) and ATI Industrial Automation Inc. (ATI).