SHANGHAI, China—Huawei is planning to build its own chipset factory here as a way to circumvent the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision in August that prohibits U.S. suppliers from providing semiconductor products and components to Huawei and its subsidiaries. The factory will make parts for its telecom hardware business.

Conventional automobiles contain 20 to 50 pounds of copper. Electric vehicles, in contrast, contain about 180 pounds of copper, and 27 million of them are expected on the road by 2027.

HAMPTON, VA—Huntington Ingalls Industries plans to build undersea drones at a facility here, anticipating greater demand for the unmanned submarines by the Navy.

WAYNESBORO, VA — Virtex, an electronics manufacturing service provider to military, aerospace, and medical customers, is adding a new product line to its manufacturing facility at Solutions Place in Waynesboro, Virginia.

Since its introduction to automotive manufacturing in the mid-1980s, the Tox clinching process has captured hundreds of different applications.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Commerce announced last week that suppliers are prohibited from providing semiconductor products and components manufactured with U.S. equipment and software to Huawei and its subsidiaries.

LEWES, UK—Hanover Displays Ltd. recently completed the installation of a second batch of cobots to improve manufacturing and quality control processes.

ABB variable frequency drives (VFDs) are used in a variety of industrial and commercial applications to improve productivity and energy efficiency in mechanical systems run by an electric motor.

ABB variable frequency drives (VFDs) are used in a variety of industrial and commercial applications to improve productivity and energy efficiency in mechanical systems run by an electric motor.

DETROIT, MI – General Motors and DTE Energy are working together to accelerate Michigan’s transition to renewable energy with a deal to source 500,000 megawatt hours of solar energy as part of DTE’s MIGreenPower program.