Category Archives: manufacturing

Growing Chinese Trade Deficit Costs U.S. $37 Billion in Wages

The trade deficit with China cost the U.S. economy $37 billion in lost wages in 2011, a new Economic Policy Institute report finds. Continue reading

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Mazda6 Recall Underway for Doors Opening Suddenly

More than 161,400 Mazda6 sedans built by the UAW in Flat Rock, Michigan are affected, it was revealed before the Republicans shut down the U.S.safety agency NHTSA along with the rest of the government. Continue reading

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Volkswagen Group Opens New Plant in Foshan, China

China is the Volkswagen Group’s largest sales market worldwide. In 2012, the company delivered more than 2.81 million vehicles to customers in the country. In the first eight months of this year, VW claims that deliveries rose by 18% compared with the comparable prior-year period to more than 2 million vehicles. This is a close second to General Motors the long-time market leader at more than 2.2 million units. Continue reading

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Henkel Opens World’s Largest Adhesives Plant in Shanghai

Henkel opened what it claims is the world’s largest adhesives factory in Shanghai to serve the auto industry and various consumer goods producers. Continue reading

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Bowling Green Now Shipping 2014 Corvette Stingray

GM today began shipping the 2014 Corvette Stingray Coupe to Chevrolet dealers. The Bowling Green Assembly has produced 1,000 Corvette Stingrays for customer deliveries. Continue reading

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Milestones – Millionth Cadillac from Lansing Grand River

The one millionth Cadillac built at the Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant came off the line today. Continue reading

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2014 Toyota Corolla Ups Ante in Compact Car Game

Toyota Motor coming off two straight months knocking Ford Motor out of its traditional Number Two sales position in the U.S. market is introducing an all-new Corolla model. Not only will this present formidable competition for the Ford Focus, but it will also challenge Honda Civic, Nissan Altima, Mazda3 as well as the rest of compact cars in this high volume segment. Continue reading

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Nissan Exports RHD Pathfinder SUVs from U.S.

Several factors are in play here. The weakness of the Japanese Yen during the past several years has forced Japanese production offshore. Even though the Japanese government is now manipulating the Yen to make it stronger, Japanese companies are still proceeding with plans to export from the U.S. that were put in place during the last decade. A built in the USA label can be positive especially for trucks. Continue reading

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Chinese Government Approves Volvo Car Plants

Chinese government approved the establishment Volvo Car Group plants in Daqing and Zhangjiakou. As a result, Zhejiang Geely-owned Volvo Cars will have a bigger Chinese industrial presence then it has in Sweden when you include Chengdu, which is already building prototype stretched versions of the S60 sedan. Continue reading

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Save Highland Park the $5 a Day Model T Plant with a $5 Donation

The Woodward Avenue Action Association, aka WA3, has bid $550,000 to buy two of the buildings at the famous Ford manufacturing complex: the Administration Building, which fronts Woodward, and the adjacent 8,000-square-foot executive garage. Continue reading

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Milestones – Jefferson North at Five Million Jeeps

Chrysler Group’s Jefferson North Assembly Plant today celebrated the five millionth Jeep to come off its assembly line. A Billet Silver 2014 Grand Cherokee Overland was driven by Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Scott Garberding during a celebration at the plant he once managed before finding a permanent home with the United Service Organizations (USO). Continue reading

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Chrysler Group to Invest $52 Million in Michigan Engine Plants

Chrysler Group today announced that it would invest $52 million in its engine plants in Trenton and Dundee, Michigan, to increase capacity of the four-cylinder Tigershark engine, creating 298 new positions at the Trenton plant. Continue reading

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Manufacturing Important Again. Tell Washington

Manufacturing is the most important sector for a strong economy, according to a new opinion poll released today in conjunction with a session on Global Manufacturing at the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars. Continue reading

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Volkswagen Says Chattanooga Created 12,400 Jobs

Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory has an annual economic impact of $643 million creating 12,400 full-time jobs in the region, according to a new study presented at the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminar in Traverse City, Michigan today. Continue reading

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GM and Honda Target 2020 for Viable Fuel Cell EVs

The light duty fuel cell vehicle (FCV) has shown promise for decades, but the problem remains that it is space age technology at NASA levels of cost. Not surprisingly, automakers have varying levels of interest fuel cells that always appear to be just a decade or so from commercialization, but interest is rising. Continue reading

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