Toyota Supplier Selects Princeton (13214)
PRINCETON, Ind. (Oct. 15, 2007) - Governor Mitch Daniels joined executives from Toyota Boshoku Corporation today to announce the company will locate a new seat frame production and assembly facility here, creating more than 200 new jobs.

Danville, Ill.'s Watchfire Increases Production Capacity (12035)
“Our manufacturing process allows us to scale as demand builds while maintaining an acceptable outstanding delivery pipeline,” said Darrin Friskney, director of Watchfire Digital Outdoor. Watchfire’s shorter production cycle results from its vertically integrated manufacturing process and its complete focus on manufacturing advertising LED signage, enabling the company to build a quality digital board with industry leading turn-around at a reasonable cost.

Overmolded Lead Frames Create One Integrated Rugged Part (11481)
Developed using rapid proto-typing with 3-D solid modeling analysis, ETCO Overmolded Custom Lead Frames can be manufactured from virtually any alloy including medical grade, titanium, platinum, stainless, and copper alloys. The lead frames are supplied on reels for integration with molding processes that can incorporate a wide range of engineering plastics.

Cummins Breaks Ground on Fuel System Plant in China, Production Expected in Early 2008 (11399)
Cummins Fuel Systems designs and manufactures new and replacement fuel systems primarily for heavy-duty on-highway diesel engine applications. Much of the current production goes to the Company’s engine business, with Scania being Cummins’ primary outside customer. Cummins currently designs and machines fuel systems in Columbus, Ind., and has an assembly operation in Juarez, Mexico.

Built-In Encoders Reduce Assembly Costs And Components (11389)
Founded in 1905, Bodine Electric Company, a family-owned business, offers over 1000 standard products, and thousands of custom designed fractional horsepower (<1 HP) electric motors, gearmotors and motion controls (AC induction, Brushless DC, and Permanent Magnet DC). Products are available via an extensive distributor network or sold directly to OEMs. Known for their reliability, long life and competitive prices, Bodine products are found in many demanding industrial and commercial applications such as medical devices, labeling equipment, printing presses, photocopier, scientific and laboratory equipment, and factory automation.

Sunnyvale, Calif.'s Synplicity Announces Agreement to Acquire HARDI Electronics AB (11339)
HAPS is a modular, high performance and high capacity FPGA-based system for ASIC prototyping. HAPS comprises multi-FPGA motherboards and standard or custom-made daughter boards which can be combined in a wide variety of ways in order to quickly assemble ASIC prototyping systems. Rapid assembly is facilitated by the availability of many standard daughter boards including video processing, memory and interfaces to Ethernet, USB, PCI Express and ARM® core modules.

AIRAM Relocates To Covington, Ohio (11292)
“AIRAM presses are used in many different material applications, including roll forming, cardboard, plastics, steel and aluminum. AIRAM plans to integrate automation with our products in the form of servo drives, robots, feeds and transfers and palletizers.”

Irvine, Calif.'s I/OMagic Corporation Agrees to Sell Approximately 70% Ownership to China’s Jiangxi Greatsource Display Tech. Co. Ltd. (11203)
KHD is a corporation in China specializing in research, development and commercialization of liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) display technology. KHD’s executives and technical team were among the first to investigate, conduct research and successfully carry out production of LCOS-related technology in China. Using state-of-the-art LCOS design together with KHD’s own expertise in liquid crystal packing as well as key optical engine production and other industrial bottleneck technology in manufacturing, KHD is forming a complete LCOS HDTV production chain.

Supreme Corporation Opening Manufacturing Plant In Ligonier (10290)
Founded in 1974, Supreme Corporation has become the nation’s leading full-line manufacturer of customized, general-purpose truck and bus bodies. The company is a vertically integrated manufacturer, operating its own technologically innovative, fiberglass-reinforced plywood (FRP) plant, a Tower Structural Lamination (TSL) plant, and the MasterFab Composites Group, which specializes in fiberglass molding and fabrication.

Chrysler Group Launches Production of All-New 2007 Jeep(R) Patriot at Belvidere Assembly Plant (9732)
Third vehicle introduced at Belvidere Assembly Plant