T.RAD North America building USD 92.5 million manufacturing plant in Clarksville, Tennessee On December 10, T.RAD officials announced the company is expanding to Tennessee with Clarksville as the company’s first location in the state. As part of the project, T.RAD will create 928 new jobs and invest USD 90.2 million to construct a new facility at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Corporate Business Park South. Upon completion, the additional i...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/19

Amazon plans USD 3 billion investment in Mississippi for new data center On November 20, 2025, Amazon announced that it will invest USD 3 billion in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi to build a new data center campus. The data center campus will be used to support AI and cloud computing technologies. The investment is expected to create at least 200 full-time jobs directly and support an additional 300 full-time jobs in the region. This inves...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/04

Carlex Glass invests USD 55 million to expand Tennessee operation On November 19, Carlex Glass America announced that the company is investing USD 55 million to expand its advanced manufacturing operations in Nashville, Tennessee. The investment will equip the Davidson County campus with next generation production lines and create 143 new jobs. Scheduled for completion in mid-2026, the expansion will enable Carlex to fabricate larger precision-fo...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/27

Ford EV truck postponement results in legal fight between program suppliers A lawsuit resulting from Ford Motors’ change of plans for a new EV truck was filed in Oakland County Circuit Court. Nexteer is being sued by tier-two supplier Swoboda Inc., after Ford decided to postpone its next-generation P800 TE1 full-size electric pickup program until at least 2028. Swoboda, a German supplier with a factory in Kentwood, Michigan, sued its tier-one c...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/26

om Foxconn, positioning it as a key manufacturing hub for the AI boom.  The Ohio plant will now focus on building modular equipment for data centers early in 2026. It will manufacture portable, pre-assembled units that allow for rapid deployment and scalable capacity for data center sites in Milam County, Texas, and other locations. Although Foxconn invested USD 26 million in the facility in May, it sold the Lordstown facility land and buildings...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/25

t. “We need to decide what kind of real benefit we can offer to potential customers,” Mashio said. Honda conducts its eVTOL research, which includes aerospace engineering, control system engineering, design, fabrication and assembly, primarily at its Honda Research Institute – San Luis Obispo County operation. Honda’s eVTOL has been conceived as a hybrid-electric aircraft since the company determined early on that battery technology was u...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/20

la’s Careers website currently lists over 30 job openings for the Brookshire site, for engineers, welders, and project managers.  The company has leased two buildings in Brookshire in the Empire West Business Park, with over USD 194 million in combined investment. Tesla’s agreement with Waller County includes a 60% property tax abatement, according to local media, for which Tesla is required to employ at least 1,500 workers through the 10-ye...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/15

Redwood Materials begins critical minerals recovery operations at South Carolina campus On November 6, Redwood Materials announced that it was bringing operations online at its South Carolina campus, adding an initial 20,000 metric tons of annual materials production.  Operations of recovering critical minerals on the 600-acre campus in Berkeley County is a start toward what will become one of the world’s largest recovery, refining, and manufa...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/08

Joint power battery project between CALB, Leapmotor settled in Jinhua According to multiple press releases, a joint power battery project between CALB Group Co., Ltd. (CALB) and Leapmotor was officially settled. Located in Wuyi County, Jinhua, Zhejiang, the project, with a total investment of CNY 7.5 billion, will contain power battery system production lines with an annual production capacity of 33.6GWh, enough to meet the battery demand of 500...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/04

ober. Contractor Barton Malow confirmed the recent layoffs at the USD 3.5 billion project but declined to provide specifics. GM spokesperson Kevin Kelly confirmed some workers were taken off the project but said construction continues. Bill Schalliol, director of economic development for St. Joseph County, said the construction slowdown comes as GM and Samsung consider making design changes to the project, potentially to make a different type of ...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/04

Kenya plans 10,000 EV charging stations by 2030 On September 30, multiple sources reported that the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, Kenya, is planning to establish 10,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the country by 2030. It will invest EUR 39.5 million in this project. The project will be implemented in phases, targeting major highways, regional hubs, and county headquarters. Based on multiple sources ...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/07

vehicles. In addition, by transferring production of North America-bound vehicles from Isuzu’s Fujisawa plant to the new facility, the company aims to reach an annual production capacity of approximately 50,000 units by 2030. The new facility (Piedmont facility) is being constructed in Greenville County, South Carolina (7755 Augusta Road Piedmont, SC 29673). The site area is approximately 750,000 m², with a facility (building) area of approxim...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/02

t officially opened the Debrecen plant in Hungary. The plant, designed under the BMW iFACTORY principles, will start series production of the new BMW iX3 at the end of October 2025 as the first vehicle based on the Neue Klasse platform. The Debrecen plant, built on over 400 hectares in Hajdú-Bihar County, is Hungary’s fourth automotive production hub. The plant is BMW’s first to operate as a network factory, combining best practices from dif...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/29

nergy and General Motors about financing support for the Thacker Pass project. Canada-based Lithium Americas is renegotiating the terms of the USD 2.26 billion loan it received from the U.S. Department of Energy during the Biden Administration to develop its Thacker Pass lithium reserve in Humboldt County, Nevada, which is slated to open in 2028. “The company is in discussions with the DoE and General Motors, its joint venture partner in the Th...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/25

Narva, Estonia. Neo’s magnet plant in Estonia is playing a catalytic role in strengthening European supply chains for rare earth magnets.  The Just Transition Fund supports this plant with EUR 14.5 million. It will have a significant positive impact on the economy in Narva and the wider Ida-Viru County by creating up to 1,000 jobs. As more than 90% of magnets currently imported in the EU come from China, the new factory will greatly increase E...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/22

Linglong signs MoU for tire manufacturing plant in Kenya On September 16, the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry, Kenya, in a social media post, announced that the Ministry and Linglong Group Limited signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) for the establishment of a USD 800 million tire manufacturing plant in Mariakani, Kilifi County. Linglong Group, through its subsidiary Linglong Tyres, will create over 1,...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/19

acility is expected to produce up to approximately 3,400 MWh/year. The project partners broke ground on the solar farm in November 2022 and finished construction this summer. Thus marks the completion of the first of three solar energy production facilities the group plans to bring online in Blount County, Tennessee. Silicon Ranch projects the second facility to be online by December of 2025 and anticipates that the third will come online in the ...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/03

for a renewal of the mining permit in accordance with relevant regulations and aims to resume production as soon as a new approval is obtained. This matter will have a minimal impact on CATL’s overall operations. According to earlier reports, the Jianxiawo lithium mining area in Zhenkouli, Yifeng County, Jiangxi Province owned by Yichun Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited, a subsidiary of CATL, has stopped production. (Based on CATL’s int...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/14

an estimated 10,000 more miles—while featuring a non-directional tread pattern for easier fleet maintenance and enhanced stone rejection. Certified with the Three-Peak Mountain Snowflake designation, the W920 provides dependable performance in rain and snow. Manufactured at Bridgestone’s Warren County, Tennessee plant, the tire launches in size 11R22.5, with more sizes planned for 2026. This is Bridgestone’s third commercial truck tire with...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/13

orders support the UK supply chain and provide cleaner, more reliable transport. About 60% of zero-emission buses funded through the ZEBRA (Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas) program are currently being built in the UK, and the panel aims to build on this to increase regional growth. Nottinghamshire County Council is receiving GBP 2.3 million to introduce 42 new electric buses, while Hull City Council has been allocated GBP 3.9 million to provide ...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/01