Openings & Expansions: Page 7

  • The assembly line at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc.
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    Toyota investing $1.3B for EV production in Kentucky

    The automaker Toyota will install a battery pack assembly line at the Georgetown plant and build a new three-row electric SUV for the U.S. market starting in 2025.

    By Eric Walz • Feb. 9, 2024
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    White House invests $5B in semiconductor R&D efforts

    The money will go towards launching a national center to boost domestic breakthroughs in chip technology.

    By • Feb. 9, 2024
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    Top 5 stories from Manufacturing Dive

    Check out five of our biggest stories of 2024 so far, including how manufacturers are navigating rising costs and boosting workforce innovation. 

    By Manufacturing Dive staff
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    Eli Lilly to grow production capacity for weight-loss drugs in 2024

    The drug maker’s Concord, North Carolina, plant intends to meet the growing demand for its injectable drugs such as Zepbound and Mounjaro.

    By • Feb. 8, 2024
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    SK Hynix weighing US chip facility investment

    The South Korea-based chipmaker’s new packaging plant is slated for Indiana, according to a Financial Times report.

    By • Feb. 6, 2024
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    Courtesy of Intel.

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    Intel delays $20B Ohio project

    The New Albany facilities are now expected to be completed by the end of 2026 instead of 2025.

    By • Feb. 2, 2024
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    Courtesy of Orbic Electronics Manufacturing.

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    Factory openings: What’s new in January

    The start of 2024 showed millions of dollars in investments from manufacturers such as Tyson Foods, Sailun Tire and more.

    By • Feb. 2, 2024
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    Courtesy of Entos Pharmaceuticals/Sean Hawkins, Facility Manager
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    Entos Pharmaceuticals opens California facility

    The Carlsbad facility will produce messenger RNA and plasmid DNA, part of a broader strategy to expand production in both the U.S. and Canada.

    By • Feb. 1, 2024
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    Intel, UMC to collaborate on chip fabs

    The semiconductor companies will make a 12-nanometer chip process platform at Intel’s fab factory in Arizona.

    By • Jan. 31, 2024
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    Tyson opens $355 million high-tech bacon plant in Kentucky

    The 400,000 square-foot facility has autonomous, box-stacking robots and driverless forklifts to help eliminate “ergonomically stressful tasks,” the meat giant said.

    By Nathan Owens • Jan. 30, 2024
  • Bars from Mars' Nature's Bakery brand.
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    Mars to build $237M Utah facility for Nature’s Bakery brand

    The Salt Lake City plant will increase capacity for the granola and snack bar maker that has become the eighth best-selling product line in the category.

    By Christopher Doering • Jan. 29, 2024
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    Wieland to expand Illinois copper production plant

    The manufacturer will invest $500 million to re-equip, modernize and increase capacity at its East Alton facility.

    By • Jan. 26, 2024
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    Lucid Motors expands Arizona plant ahead of Gravity launch

    The EV campus will grow by about 3 million square feet as the company adds a new manufacturing facility, storage space and more.

    By Michael Brady • Jan. 26, 2024
  • Aerial shot of TSMC's $40 billion construction project in Phoenix, Arizona
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    Phoenix leads in manufacturing construction

    The city has seen 14 major projects since 2020, and plants are cropping up in other areas with the labor pool to staff them, research found.

    By Julie Strupp • Jan. 23, 2024
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    Stardust Power to build lithium refinery in Oklahoma

    The company plans to turn the facility into a hub for its domestic supply chain.

    By • Jan. 22, 2024
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    Courtesy of Cummins.

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    Cummins to spend $580M to upgrade North Carolina plant

    The new equipment will expand the Rocky Mount plant’s ability to produce gasoline and propane engines.

    By • Jan. 22, 2024
  • Rendering of early plans for Texas Instruments’ next 300-millimeter semiconductor wafer fab, next to the company's existing fab, in Lehi, Utah.
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    Major factory construction projects to watch in 2024

    Intel, Texas Instruments and LG Energy Solution are among those investing billions of dollars in new manufacturing plants this year.

    By Sakshi Udavant • Jan. 18, 2024
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    Courtesy of Maxio Biomedical
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    MaximBio gets $49.5M federal grant for COVID tests

    The funding is part of a push from the Biden administration to manufacture more than 200 million COVID-19 tests.

    By • Jan. 16, 2024
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    CNW Group/Sailun Tire Americas

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    Sailun Tire to build $240M plant in Mexico

    The facility will be the tire manufacturer's first North American facility.

    By • Jan. 11, 2024
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    Courtesy of Orbic Electronics Manufacturing.

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    Verizon supplier to open $30M New York plant

    Orbic Electronics plans to move its cell phone and tablet production from China to Long Island.

    By • Jan. 9, 2024
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    Courtesy of Microchip Technology.

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    Commerce Department to award Microchip Technology second CHIPS Act grant

    The semiconductor maker will use the proposed $162 million to expand its fab facilities in Oregon and Colorado.

    By • Jan. 5, 2024
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    Amkor, DuPont, Lilly: November and December factory announcements

    The last two months of the year included billion-dollar investments in semiconductors, drug making and solar panels.

    By • Jan. 4, 2024
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    US drug manufacturing grew in 2023

    Record high drug shortages and an increased focus on onshoring production led the federal government to invest more in the pharma sector this year.

    By • Dec. 22, 2023
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    Waaree Energies to build its first US solar panel factory

    The Houston-area site will create 1,500 jobs by 2027.

    By • Dec. 21, 2023
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    National Resilience to increase drug manufacturing in Ohio

    The expanded site will nearly double the biomanufacturer’s current presence in West Chester.

    By • Dec. 20, 2023
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    US Steel to be sold to Nippon Steel for $14.9B

    The deal will expand U.S. production and increase the companies’ steel capacity to 86 million tons a year.

    By • Dec. 19, 2023