$19M Synsil factory being built in Cleburne NY

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Intel has announced plans to build a 300mm wafer fabrication facility, which is set to be completed in the second half of 2007. The US$3 billion project is set to be completed in the second half of 2007 and would be Intel's sixth 300mm facility. It would manufacture chips based on 45 nanometre process technology.

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WRIGHT TWP. – Bedding giant Sealy Corp. will hire 107 people at an average annual salary of $33,000 at its new factory in the Crestwood Industrial Park. The Archdale, N.C., company, the world's largest bedding manufacturer, is investing $30 million into the factory on Elmwood Road. The facility will make latex foam, a material used in specialty bedding products, and a foam-encased inner spring for the company's Stearns & Foster luxury brand. The company broke ground in April and expects the 210,000-square-foot facility to be operating in the first quarter of 2007. Sealy, which has 25 plants in North America, including two ...

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Building materials maker CertainTeed Corp., of Valley Forge, said it will construct a fiber cement manufacturing facility - the company's third, and largest - in Terre Haute, Ind. The new 300,000-square-foot factory will employ 100 when it is completed in the second half of 2007, and up to 145 when it reaches full capacity, the company said. CertainTeed expects to invest "upwards of $70-million" in the facility, Chris Altmansberger, vice president and general manager of the fiber cement division, said.

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Manco to build new factory April 17, 2000. The Avon, Ohio, duct tape giant recently announced plans to build a new 150,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Oklahoma City.

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Mich. scores two new plants
Carmaker plans engine factory in Trenton along with plans for a new axle factory in Marysville. DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group, forging ahead with its turnaround plan, is expected to announce today that it will build a new plant in Trenton to manufacture the automaker's next generation of V-6 engines, code-named Phoenix

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Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. plans to invest about 830 million U.S. dollars to build an auto factory in Mississippi state and it will be the automaker's eighth vehicle assembly factory in North America.

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BASF said it plans to build a new resins plant in Wyandotte MI by the end of 2009.

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UPM Raflatac has announced its plan to build a new pressure sensitive labelstock factory in Dixon, IL, USA, 105 miles west of Chicago. The new factory ...

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March 2, 2007 SolarWorld to Build 500-MW Solar Factory in Oregon
Camarillo, California & Bonn, Germany SolarWorld AG is set to establish an integrated solar silicon wafer and solar cell production facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, that will become the largest solar factory in North America once the plant reaches its projected capacity of 500 megawatts (MW) by 2009.

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Swiss food giant Nestlé has announced plans to open a $359m factory and distribution centre in Indianapolis, to cater for rising demand for its ready-to-drink beverages. The 190 acre site, located 40 miles outside Indianapolis, will produce Nesquik Ready-to-Drink and Coffee-Mate Liquid products for sale throughout North America. Construction will begin later this year, with the completion date set for spring 2008.