Archive for January, 2012
DTNA (Daimler Trucks North America) announced on Thursday that it would be expanding the production at its Freightliner Truck Manufacturing Plant in Cleveland, N.C. by adding a second shift. The company estimates that this change will almost double their daily production of trucks and that it will create over 1,100 new jobs. Daimler Trucks exclusively [...]
Thousands of Americans are going without jobs right now—watching homes go into foreclosure, bills go unpaid and standard of living going down for themselves as well as their families. And many continue to look for jobs in the industries they worked in most recently—often hoping for comparable pay or similar benefits. However, a quick survey [...]
January 3, 2012 – Hudson, OH – Companies and business owners across the country are going “green” in a whole new way by executing strategic energy reduction initiatives. These initiatives are benefiting companies’ profit margins as well as the environment. Throughout northeast Ohio, First Energy has issued millions of dollars in lighting rebate incentives to [...]
Pavement markers are installed into the pavement to give drivers important, though often subtle, signals about how to proceed. You see them every time you’re on the road—those yellow and white reflectors that go along the painted lines of the road and offer increased lane division visibility to drivers at night and during adverse conditions [...]
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado has developed some technological breakthroughs that will change the way we manufacture solar cells. The lab is sponsored by the Department of Energy and the new breakthroughs could not only save costs and reduce the environmental impact of producing “eco-friendly” power sources, but this innovations will also [...]
As we head into the new year, it looks as if the numbers for manufacturing all over the world and down and steady—showing no sign of improvement and boding poorly for global economies. The downward shift is especially apparent in several key manufacturing areas, such as the euro zone and Asia, a central manufacturing area [...]