The parent of EnerDel, an Indianapolis-based producer of automotive lithium-ion batteries, announced Monday morning that it
has received about $20 million in investment capital from a Japanese company.
Indianapolis-based Allison Transmission Inc. announced Monday morning that it has entered into a long-term agreement to have Delphi Automotive Systems Inc. supply it with hybrid drive-system components and energy-storage systems.
Fort Wayne-based Lincoln Foodservice Products Inc. has notified state officials that it will close its “small wares”
plant there and let go 190 employees.
The amount raised since October is in addition to the $69.9 million it received in May from three venture
firms on the coasts, in what was the third-largest venture deal in the nation during the second quarter,
according to the National Venture Capital Association.
A college administrator believes technology shifts the educational focus from the wits and wisdom of the instructor to the
bullet points in the presentations.
A Ford Motor Co. subsidiary will start cutting its local work force next year, but won’t close its east-side plant
for good until late 2011.
The recession decimated Indiana’s auto-parts makers, but many other manufacturers in the state survived. After a year
adrift in the recession, they see signs of land ahead.
Indianapolis’ largest computer consulting firm on Wednesday received property-tax abatement relating to its plans to
create 200 high-paying jobs and invest $600,000 in new equipment.
Columbus engine maker Cummins Inc. will idle at least 400 workers at a manufacturing facility in Jamestown, N.Y., because
of a change in emission standards that will cut production from 500 engines a day to 100.
The locally based Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association will bring its fall trade show back to Indianapolis
in 2011 and 2012—making good on a promise to return after a $275 million expansion of the Indiana Convention Center.
Peru recreational vehicle maker Riverside Travel Trailer Inc. will expand its Miami County operations, creating 100 new jobs
by 2011, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. announced Wednesday morning.
Indianapolis’ largest computer consulting firm is seeking property-tax abatement relating to its plans to create 200 high-paying
jobs and invest $600,000 in new equipment.
Negotiations have fallen through on a deal to redevelop a closed Colgate-Palmolive Co. toothpaste factory along the Ohio River.
Toyota isn’t about to grow complacent like GM did in the ’60s, an analyst says.
Orders for costly manufactured goods dropped 0.6 percent last month, following a 2-percent gain in September.
More than 53 percent of workers with Internet access, or 68.8 million, are expected to shop online Monday, according to
the Washington, D.C.-based National Retail Federation.
Most states–Indiana included–have no law on the books banning video surveillance in homes or businesses. However, anyone
considering using a hidden camera should consider the potential to be sued under the state’s well-developed privacy law.
Falling prices,
rising distrust persuade businesses and individuals to point lenses at the unsuspecting. Bonus: Our own video
surveilling the new tiny tech.
A complex system of signs along Indianapolis’ interstate highway system was pressed into action after a propane tanker exploded
in October near I-465 and I-69.
Kokomo-based Haynes International Inc.’s efforts to consolidate operations and reduce inventory could not keep it from losing $3 million in its fiscal fourth quarter, the company announced Monday.
