Geert De Lombaerde
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Ultium Battery JV to Add 500 Jobs in Tennessee (opens the original)
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The battery manufacturing joint venture between General Motors Corp. and LG Energy Solution will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in its Tennessee factory to make lithium manganese rich battery cells for the first time. The expansion by Ultium Cells in Spring Hill, about 30 miles south of Nashville, is expected to add 500 jobs to the plant’s workforce of about 1,200 and be completed by 2028. Ultium leaders said the project and the recently launched production of lithium iron phosphate batt
Add 'Certainty' to Manufacturing's Wish List: So That Happened (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: Welcome to So That Happened, our editors’ takes on things going on in the manufacturing world that deserve some extra attention. This will appear regularly in the Member’s Only section of the site. A hatful of industrial-company CEOs, including key distributors and blue chips ITW and Nucor, have this summer pointed to a nice improvement in customers’ buying activity. Demand appears solid and maybe even broadening out, they said, as companies look to grab their share of investments
GM CFO: Real EV Improvement Will Be a ’28 Story (opens the original)
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Next year won’t bring big electric-vehicle headlines from General Motors Corp., CFO Paul Jacobson told an investment bank’s conference this week. For marked improvements in the automotive giant’s EV business, investors will need to wait until 2028. Speaking at Morgan Stanley’s 14th Annual Laguna Conference on Sept. 15, Jacobson said the GM leadership team led by Chair and CEO Mary Barra – who has over the past year and change regularly reiterated that EVs are GM’s North Star for the long term –
Auto Supplier CEOs: There Will and Needs to Be More Consolidation (opens the original)
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Two CEOs of large automotive suppliers say the industry will—and should— consolidate further in coming years as its automaker customers grapple with a relatively flat sales environment and look for more efficiencies. Speaking at last month’s J.P. Morgan Automotive Conference in New York, executives of Dauch Corp. (the former American Axle & Manufacturing), Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. and Dana Inc. discussed the trends shaping their market and how they’re responding. Both Dauch, which in Februa
Solstice Abandons $14B Element Solutions Acquisition After Investor Pressure (opens the original)
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The leaders of Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. and Element Solutions Inc. have pulled the plug on their plan to join forces after receiving “constructive feedback” from investors on the merits of the deal. Solstice and Element executives early last month announced that Solstice planned to pay more than $14 billion for Element, whose specialty chemicals businesses would better Solstice to serve demand from firms in the semiconductor, artificial-intelligence and data-center spaces. Combined, the
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