General Motors is planning to lay off around 510 workers from two of its Michigan assembly plants in the US. It includes around 160 workers from its Orion Facility while 350 people will be laid off from its Lansing plant where Cadillac ...
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Ford China sales are up 30 percent in the year to date, with 717,537 vehicles sold compared with 551,738 in the first eight months of 2013. In August this year alone, Ford sold 77,506 vehicles in China, up nine percent from 71,183 sold in ...
Korean automaker Kia announced it will invest more than US$2.5 billion with their suppliers in Nuevo Leon, as Ternium is ready to supply steel to them. The company will build an assembly plant in the town of Pesquería, which is ...
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Hyundai Motor is planning to build two vehicle manufacturing plants in China. The car maker is planning to remodel one of its partners, Beijing Automotive Industry Holding's plant and wants to build another plant in the sub continent. ...
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As the development pace is slowing down in China, BAIC Foton is exploring overseas markets, and it is learned from Foton Daimler that their first overseas plant will be built in India in the end of this year, and then they will explore ...
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Techint, which owns Mexico Ternium, TenarisTamsa, and Tecpetrol, is reportedly contemplating an expansion of its Pesquería Industrial Center Ternium, in Nuevo León state,in order to satisfy the demand for steel that will grow ...
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Imported products sold in the United States, from clothing to cars, contain far more U.S. parts or other value, and support significantly more American jobs than consumers or policymakers realize, according to a new report prepared for the ...
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American automaker General Motors (GM) will expand its presence in China with investments of $12bn between 2014 and 2017 through its domestic joint ventures. The investments will be used to open five new manufacturing facilities by ...
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Toyota Corolla is now exported from Mississippi to the World. With this move, a total of nine US-Assembled Toyota Models are now exported to 32 countries. At a ceremony this afternoon with team members, elected officials and community and ...
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The ISO/TS16949 is an ISO technical specification aiming to the development of a quality management system that provides for continual improvement, emphasizing defect prevention and the reduction of variation and waste in the supply chain. ...
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The ISO/TS16949 is an ISO technical specification aiming to the development of a quality management system that provides for continual improvement, emphasizing defect prevention and the reduction of variation and waste in the supply chain. ...
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American automaker General Motors (GM) is set to invest $449m to upgrade its manufacturing processes at Detroit-Hamtramck assembly and Brownstown battery assembly plants. This move is aimed at the company's next generation of electric ...
American automaker General Motors (GM) is set to invest $14m in the installation of a progressive press at the Parma Metal Center in Ohio. The press will be used for both die tryout and regular parts production. It is expected to start ...
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By 2016, General Motors executives want to reduce the automaker’s North American material and logistics costs by $1 billion, according to a Detroit News report. The project involves creating localized logistics and distribution ...
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General Motors will invest just shy of US$1.3 billion ($1.45 billion) across five of its US manufacturing sites, with funding going towards production of a new V6 engine, an all-new 10-speed automatic transmission and an existing six-speed ...
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