NEW YORK—A new Study from Thomas and Women in Manufacturing shows that one in three manufacturing professionals and one in four manufacturing leaders are women. The medical-healthcare sector has the highest female-identifying employee presence at 54 percent.
FRANKLIN LAKES, NJ—Becton, Dickinson and Co. plans to invest approximately $1.2 billion over a four-year period to expand and upgrade manufacturing capacity and technology for pre-fillable syringes and advanced drug delivery systems across its six global manufacturing locations and add a new manufacturing facility in Europe.
LOUISVILLE—Approximately 20,000 active and retired Ford factory workers, their immediate family members and surviving spouses will be able to get coronavirus tests at the UAW hall here after the union’s executive board voted unanimously to hire a private laboratory to perform the tests at no cost to members.
ANDERSON COUNTY, SC—Anderson County will see a boom in manufacturing jobs in the next year as Techtronic Industries (TTI) announced plans to expand its operations there.
DETROIT—General Motors Corp. recently announced that it will spend $27 billion on all-electric and autonomous vehicles through 2025, an increase of $7 billion, or 35 percent, from initial plans announced in March.
BOXBOROUGH, MA—German contract manufacturer Vibalogics GmbH is investing $150 million and hiring 100 people for a facility here to help Big Pharma develop a COVID-19 vaccine. The company plans to open the site by the second half of 2021.
INDIANAPOLIS—Vibromatic Co. Inc., a supplier of parts handling and feeding equipment, has been inducted into the Indiana Manufacturers Association’s (IMA) Hall of Fame.
QUAKERTOWN, PA—Systems integrator Demco Automation has received a second consecutive Gold Medallion Award from the U.S. Department of Labor for recruiting, hiring and retaining veterans.
LONDON–On January 1, 2021, new regulations by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency in the UK will require medical devices of all classes to be registered with the agency. These regulations may impact the number of approved medical devices in the future.
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