Automaker plans to release full restructuring plan for Opel and Vauxhall units in mid December, but didn't specify the cuts to capacity and jobs it would seek.

Steel products maker said 53 workers will be out of work by the end of November, blaming a slowdown in construction and highway projects during the winter for the job cuts.

Company has entered a three-way joint venture to build a cane sugar refinery next to its existing factory in Gramercy, La.

Headgear maker said low consumer demand is forcing the consolidation of its U.S. manufacturing operations from three plants to one.

Salaried employees at DENSO Manufacturing Tennessee Inc. will have their full pay restored in January after having their pay cut 5 and 10 percent last February.

Harley-Davidson has been looking at a site in Kentucky for a motorcycle plant that employs 2,500 people, but Gov. Steve Beshear says potential for a deal is ‘significantly diminished.’

Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. said Thursday it will temporarily idle production at its two smelters in Italy, affecting about 2,000 workers.

Auto production was down 6.7 percent in October compared to a year ago, the smallest year-on-year drop of 2009, an industry group said Friday.

New plant addition will manufacture and test medium-duty truck and off-highway viscous fan drive product.

Steelmaker says its cold rolling mill in Yorkville, Ohio, is resuming operations in mid-December, citing increasing demand for cold rolled and coated steel products.