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- Feb 15, 2012
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GE investing $580M in aerospace expansion
- Feb 13, 2012
- News Release
WASHINGTON: General Electric Co. (GE) is hiring 5,000 veterans in the US and investing $580 million to expand its aerospace business as part of a new program to address skills training, workforce preparedness and advanced manufacturing. The company began a four-day event with partners in Washington...
StatsCan reports $2.7 billion trade surplus
- Feb 10, 2012
- News Release
OTTAWA—Statistics Canada (StatsCan) says merchandise exports rose 4.5 per cent in December while imports edged up 0.8 per cent, pushing the country's trade surplus to $2.7 billion from $1.2 billion in November. The agency says exports grew to $42 billion in December as volumes increased 4.9...
Manufacturers’ confidence is picking up for 2012: PwC study
- Feb 10, 2012
- News Release
TORONTO: Canadian manufacturers have started the year feeling confident about their prospects, according to a PwC study. The global consulting company’s fourth-quarter 2011 manufacturing barometer study show more than half the respondents are confident about the next 12 months, a 25% jump...
US manufacturing comeback? Obama faces high hurdles
- Feb 10, 2012
- News Release
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is making a strong election-year push for an economic revival “built on American manufacturing.” But he faces an uphill slog, with little consensus even within his own party on how to do it. For decades, the US has gradually shifted from creating goods...
Toyota invests $400 million in Indiana plant
- Feb 9, 2012
- News Release
CHICAGO—Toyota is investing $400 million to create 400 jobs to increase capacity of its Highlander SUV, at its Princeton, Ind. plant. The hiring and expansion will begin in 2013. The Japanese automaker hopes to increase production of the Highlander by 50,000 at the Indiana plant, where it...
Electro-Motive: Harper, McGuinty play politics
- Feb 7, 2012
- News Release
OAKVILLE, Ont.—Premier Dalton McGuinty says Canada’s “outdated” foreign investment laws are to blame for the Electro Motive plant closure in London, Ont. last week. U.S.-based Caterpillar, which is planning to close the Electro-Motive plant, never had any “sincere...
GM bullfrogs the Volt
- Feb 7, 2012
- News Release
TORONTO: General Motors’ Chevrolet Volt is plugging into green energy provider Bullfrog Power to launch a special edition of the electric vehicle (EV). Chevrolet Volt Bullfrog Power Edition will be bundled with emissions-free, renewable electricity injected onto the electricity grid from...
Germany's main workers' union demands 6.5% raise
- Feb 7, 2012
- News Release
BERLIN: Germany's main workers' union says it will demand a raise of 6.5% for its more than two million members in upcoming negotiations with employers. IG Metall chairman Berthold Huber said the metal and electrical industry union's board is set to endorse the demand for the next collective...
China environmental accidents on the rise
- Feb 7, 2012
- News Release
SHANGHAI, China: Environmental accidents are on the rise in China, mainly due to chemicals industry-related traffic and industrial mishaps, and the costs of such damage to the economy are rising. China handled 542 environmental accidents in 2011, the newspaper China Daily reported, citing...
Mark’s Work Wearhouse pulls Caterpillar boots
- Feb 6, 2012
- News Release
LONDON, Ont.—Mark’s Work Wearhouse has pulled Caterpillar-brand boots from its London, Ont., stores after the heavy-equipment giant shut down a local locomotive plant. The national work-wear chain says it is showing support for the 420 workers who lost their jobs at Electro-Motive,...
Mitsubishi ends car production in Amsterdam plant
- Feb 6, 2012
- News Release
AMSTERDAM—Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will stop building cars at its Netherlands factory—the company's only plant in Western Europe—at the end of 2012. The decision will likely lead to layoffs for the 1,500 workers at the “NedCar” plant in the southern city of Born, which...
Derailed: Caterpillar shutters Electro-Motive's London plant
- Feb 3, 2012
- News Release
LONDON—In a move that may or may not come as a surprise, Progress Rail Services Corp., the parent company of Electro-Motive Canada (EMC), has shuttered Electro-Motive's London plant. The decision comes after a month's long lock out of 420 workers at Canada's last locomotive manufacturing...
GM converts exhaust to energy [VIDEO]
- Feb 3, 2012
- News Release
PONTIAC, Mich.—Engineers at a General Motors’ (GM) engineering centre are using excess energy from engine testing to power parts of the facility. Since the Pontiac Engineering Centre began the energy efficiency project after a 2008 renovation, the facility has regenerated more than 26.7...
$50M for GE aircraft engine centre in Winnipeg
- Feb 1, 2012
- News Release
WINNIPEG: Industrial giant General Electric has opened a new $50 million aircraft engine testing, research and development centre in Winnipeg that could eventually create up to 50 jobs. The US company said the centre will be run by joint venture partner StandardAero and will perform icing...
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