DETROIT, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- General Motors Corp. Friday announced one- and two-week shutdowns at several plants and said it would close a truck plant earlier than expected.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 13 (UPI) -- Bombardier Aerospace says it will produce its new C-Series aircraft in Montreal instead of building a new assembly plant at Kansas City International Airport.
DETROIT, April 12 (UPI) -- The United Auto Workers union has set a strike date for three General Motors Corp. factories in Michigan if negotiators cannot agree on new contracts, GM said.
DETROIT, April 6 (UPI) -- Five General Motors Corp. plants could face strikes unless negotiations on local contracts are concluded quickly, U.S. auto industry experts said.
ADELAIDE, Australia, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Japanese auto manufacturer Mitsubishi has shut down its Australian assembly plant near Adelaide, throwing 1,000 workers out of work.
DETROIT, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Chrysler Motors will suspend production at five assembly plants, due to difficulty obtaining parts, The Detroit News reported Monday.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 18 (UPI) -- DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group said Wednesday it would build a $730 million plant to make the U.S. automaker's next generation of V-6 engines. The Trenton, Mich., plant, near Detroit, will build the V-6 engines, code-named Phoenix, for Chrysler, Dodg
BLUE SPRINGS, Miss., April 18 (UPI) -- Toyota Motor Corp. Wednesday broke ground on a $1.3 billion assembly plant near Tupelo, Miss., its eighth North American plant.
OSLO, Norway, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A large Norwegian paper mill company was planning to close a plant and lay off 380 employees.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 15 (UPI) -- Japanese carmaker Toyota has laid the foundation stone for an assembly plant outside St. Petersburg, Russia. Toyota plans to invest $140.5 million in the facility, becoming the first Japanese car manufacturer to build a Russian assembly plant, The Moscow
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Toyota Motors will begin building an assembly plant in St. Petersburg, Russia, next year, Itar-Tass reported Wednesday.
HOUSTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Multiple explosions tore through a chemical plant Friday in southwest Houston.
NEW ULM, Minn., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- It was a real case of adding fuel to fire as fire raced through a New Ulm, Minn., butter plant, melting 3 million pounds of the product.
VERNON, Vt., June 18 (UPI) -- The Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon, Vt., declared what it called an "unusual event," following a transformer fire outside the plant.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- About 1,000 workers at the Ford assembly plant in Hazelwood, Mo., will keep their jobs, at least for a while longer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
