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Irving-Based Celanese Partners With Hong Kong’s VIGOR to Develop Lightweight Plastic Joints for Humanoid Robots

by | Aug 18, 2026
The companies aim to reduce the weight of joint modules by more than 30% by replacing traditional metals with high-performance plastics while delivering precision and long-term reliability.
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Taiwan’s Foxlink Building Its First U.S. ‘AI Factory’ at AllianceTexas in Fort Worth
by | Jul 16, 2026
The facility at 4600 Alliance Gateway Freeway, which will build electronic components, is expected to create some 900 jobs at full capacity. Production is set to begin next month.
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McKinney Scores Nearly $1B LITEON Advanced Manufacturing Campus
by | Jul 14, 2026
The Taiwan-based company is expanding its power management and AI infrastructure business to a planned 650,000-square-foot facility.
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Irving-based Caterpillar Commits $5M to Texas Workforce Training
by | Jul 6, 2026
Gov. Greg Abbott joined company executives to announce the investment, which is part of Caterpillar’s 5-year, $100M effort to support manufacturing’s digital transformation.
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Dallas’ Continental Electronics Opens New Richardson Facility for Its Next‑Gen RF Systems
by | Dec 4, 2025
The new facility greatly increases production capacity, enhances operational efficiency, and positions the company for long-term innovation in critical RF systems, high-reliability components, and next-generation technologies, the company said.
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Hunt Energy Enterprises Battery Tech Spinout To Pilot Advanced Cathode Plant in North Texas
by | Sep 30, 2025
The Hunt Energy Enterprises spinout—which closed a $7.5 million Pre-Series A funding round in February—said the new plant will commercialize its technology for "a cleaner and more economical battery future" for EV's and energy storage.
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Plano Siemens HQ Expands Hiring as it Widens Applications for Digital Twin Tech
by | Aug 21, 2021
Siemens Digital Industries Software headquarters is hiring like gangbusters. Siemens CFO Timo Nentwich, who moved to Dallas from Berlin last October, says the company has moved far beyond enabling the designs of airplanes and cars, into analyzing entire manufacturing processes.

“Few people know that we’re running a large operation like this out of the Plano office,” the CFO said.
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Raytheon Secures its Future in McKinney With New 200,000 SF Advanced Manufacturing Facility

by | Aug 22, 2019
Planned for completion in late 2020, the new facility will bring 500 new high-tech jobs with it.
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How North Texas Meets the Needs of Advanced Manufacturing Companies
by | Jun 6, 2019
From high-tech fighter jets and the most-advanced helicopters in the world, to long-lasting lipsticks and packaged pasta, Dallas-Fort Worth is home to a hotbed of advanced manufacturing facilities.
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Is DFW Becoming a Hub for Manufacturing? JLL Says It’s Trending That Way
by | Oct 2, 2017
An increasing number of companies are eyeing North Texas as a location to establish their large-scale manufacturing operations.
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Workshop to Look at Advanced Manufacturing in Aerospace
by | Jul 11, 2017
The workshop was made possible by a $75,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and $25,000 from the University of Texas at Arlington.
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