QUERETARO, Mexico—The Zimmer Group recently opened a branch office here that will primarily offer sales, consulting and after-sales support of its automation technology and components.

INDIANAPOLIS—In August, Roll-Royce completed a six-year, $600 million modernization of its manufacturing campus in Indianapolis. The revitalized campus is now highly efficient and will improve competitiveness in an increasingly contested marketplace for aircraft propulsion and power equipment. The energy efficiency of the buildings has also been improved significantly and will help Rolls-Royce achieve its goal of net-zero carbon emissions in operations by 2030.

BOUSKOURA, Morocco—The global semiconductor company STMicroelectronics says it hopes to procure half of the energy needed for its plant here through wind power by 2022, compared to only 1 percent currently.

BANNOCKBURN, IL—The trade association IPC has launched its newest workforce development training course, "Electronics Assembly for Engineers.” Students earn an IPC Certificate of Completion after finishing the 24 hours of course content.

NEWMAN LAKE, WA—Hentec Industries/RPS Automation, a manufacturer of selective soldering and test equipment for electronics, has expanded its assembly and production workforce, and published an 8-page technical paper entitled “Techniques for Selective Soldering High Thermal Mass and Fine-Pitch Components.”

NEW YORK—A recently released report, "Global Electrically Conductive Adhesives Industry," projects the global market for electrically conductive adhesives to grow at a compound annual rate of 7.3 percent over the next six years and reach $4 billion by 2027.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will fund new pilot projects for the American manufacturing sector to reduce carbon emissions, a key step toward meeting President Biden’s goal of a carbon-neutral economy by 2050.

TURIN, Italy—Comau UK and IIika plc are collaborating on a 12-month project to design the scale up of Ilika’s solid-state battery manufacturing capacity at its lab-based facility in Romsey, UK.

BRUSSELS—Solvay, L’Oréal, and Ultimaker are sponsoring the third edition of its international Additive Manufacturing Cup competition, which begins September 1 and runs through mid-November.

LUDLOW, MA—Meredith-Springfield Associates Inc., a plastics manufacturer specializing in blow-molded bottles, recently broke ground to add 5,000 square feet of light manufacturing space to its plant here.