Sheet Metal Stamping Simulation

Keen to support its growth, Southwestern Manufacturing erected a roadside sign earlier this month to draw applicants for about 20 new jobs at the Windsor plant.

General Motors Co. said today it is investing $23.5 million to boost production of vehicle electrification components on the site of the Baltimore Transmission Plant."This will allow us to strengthen our core electrification components expertise," said GM Manufacturing Manager Arvin Jones.
 

GM announces it will invest million of dollars into improving its White Marsh transmission plant.

Suzanne Collins reports the news comes as the company's first electric car, the Volt, hits the market.

Governor Martin O'Malley checked out the new GM Volt, which will be in showrooms in November. General Motors management is excited about the prospects for its first electric car.

There is good news to report on one of the key industries of the Lansing-area economy. Manufacturing in the capital area is emerging from one of its worst downturns on record. Jobs this past June were up by 3,100 from a year ago and are averaging year-over-year gains of about 1,800 jobs for the first half of 2010. Employment topped 18,000 in June for the first time since 2008.

As the Paris Motor Show takes place, the UK is still a major player when it comes to manufacturing even though it does not have many domestically-owned car makers.

Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Vauxhall, Bentley and BMW all help to make Britain the fourth largest vehicle manufacturer in Europe, assembling cars, vans and engines for the UK and for export.Some 820,000 jobs depend on the automotive industry - a staggering number but 54,000 fewer than five years ago before the financial crisis.

Manufacturers are realizing more and more every day there are virtually no limits to what water jets are capable of cutting and machining. Due to its versatility and ease of operation, water jet cutting technology has become one of the fastest growing machine processes in the world.

Machine tool distributor marks 50 years of success and more than 11,000 machine tool installations since its founding.

Ford India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of US car major Ford Motor Company, has doubled production at its Indian manufacturing facility in Chennai following increase in demand in the domestic market, a top official said.

Michael Boneham, president & managing director of Ford India, said the production in Chennai facility has been increased to 400 cars per day from 200 units. The increase in production has been achieved by introducing the second shift since July, he said.

A $26 million investment in Chesterfield County has allowed one company to introduce new technology will help increase performance and fuel efficiency in vehicle engine models.

Schaeffler Group USA announced Tuesday the investment at its Cheraw facility will lead to the addition of 70 new jobs.

When the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont shut down in April, many pronounced it dead -- a triple victim of the recession, sliding auto sales and General Motors' bankruptcy.But NUMMI is about to be reborn. Electric-carmaker Tesla Motors, which stunned the world when it announced plans to purchase the plant in May, officially takes ownership Oct. 1.

ST. PETERSBURG — Trumpeters dressed in white uniforms and long-legged drummer girls in blue jackets and cocked hats were playing marches Tuesday as Hyundai Motor launched its first Russian car assembly plant in St. Petersburg.

The company invested a total of $500 million in the facility, which will work in pilot mode until the end of this year and start commercial production in January.

The new China-based owners of Volvo plan to build as many as three assembly plants in that country to make the Swedish brand's vehicles—an ambitious gamble that the company can almost double sales globally by dramatically raising them in China.

Michigan's march toward a robust advanced battery industry continued this morning, as Massachusetts-based A123 Systems announced the grand opening of its new 291,000 square-foot facility in Livonia.

The company already has hired 300 workers for the lithium ion automotive battery production facility, which is believed to be the largest of its type in North America, and is expected to add several thousand jobs in coming years as it opens a second facility in Romulus.

GM's Indianapolis metal-stamping plant employees are looking in their mail boxes for the latest word on a proposed contract from JD Norman Industries.

The Illinois-based manufacturer wants to acquire the massive plant from General Motors before its scheduled closure in September 2011. The most valuable part of the deal would be the large, expensive equipment inside the plant and its skilled workforce. But United Auto Workers Union Local 23, which represents the 750 or so employees at the plant, has declined to negotiate with JD Norman.

Ford Motor Co has confirmed it will launch eight new vehicles in India by the middle of the decade as it plans to become a major player in one of the automotive world’s fastest growing markets.