Chrysler Loses Plastech Equipment Decision
Assembly Magazine
DETROIT—A federal bankruptcy court judge yesterday denied Chrysler LLC’s request to immediately retrieve equipment from supplier Plastech Engineered Products Inc., saying such a move could harm Plastech’s efforts to reorganize under bankruptcy protection. MORE
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The Ultimate Light Show
DoItYourself.com
Every year in our community, people try to outdo each other by having the best Christmas light display. One of the highlights of the season is driving around the countryside visiting all of these fine displays. A lot of ingenuity and good old-fashioned work goes into them, and everyone truly enjoys them.
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Sales of Machine Tools Up for First Seven Months of 2008
Assembly Magazine
MCLEAN, VA—Sales of machine tools during the first 7 months of 2008 total some $2.65 billion, a 15.5 percent increase compared with the same time period in 2007. According to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association and AMT—The Association For Manufacturing Technology, sales of machine tools in July 2008 ran to $303.44 million. That’s down 21.5 percent from June sales, but a 5.7 percent increase from July 2007. MORE
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