PRINCETON, IN—Toyota is investing $803 million to produce two new electric vehicle models at its assembly plant here. The project is expected to create approximately 1,400 new jobs by the end of 2023.
BROOKLYN, NY—Nanotronics, a science technology company, last week celebrated the opening of its flagship manufacturing center here, located in the Navy Yard's historic Building 20, a 150-year-old former shipbuilding factory.
SIKESTON, MO—Carlisle Construction Materials LLC, a manufacturer of premium building products and related technologies, is investing $62 million and creating 100 new jobs at a new 455,000-square-foot production and manufacturing facility here.
WASHINGTON—The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching the Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design program, or NOM4D—a program that could enable manufacturing in space and on the moon’s surface.
MERRITT ISLAND, FL—A little more than a year after opening its massive rocket manufacturing center at Kennedy Space Center, Blue Origin LLC has plans to expand it by 90 acres to support its commercial space vehicles that will launch sometime in the 2020s.
MADISON, AL—Aerobotix Inc. has developed a robotic assembly line that scans, sands, paints and measures complex missile components, thereby achieving critical tolerances required for hypersonic flight.
NEW ORLEANS—Governor John Bel Edwards recently announced that the State of Louisiana signed an agreement with NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility that could lead to creation of the Louisiana Space Campus, a dedicated 50-acre business park within NASA’s 829-acre site here.
FRANKFURT—Updated statistics issued by the International Federation of Robotics show that the average robot density in the manufacturing industry reached a new global record of 113 units per 10,000 employees in 2019.
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