manufacturing

Innovate Faster: AWS Launches New Accelerator to Boost Generative AI Startups

by | Apr 10, 2023
Generative AI could revolutionize industries ranging from film and healthcare to tech and manufacturing. The AWS Generative AI Accelerator seeks to be a gamechanger for entrepreneurs already developing minimal viable products in this space, offering valuable resources like production assistance, customized mentoring, networking opportunities, and connections with potential investors. Deadline to apply is April 17.
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StoneTree Investment Partners Launches StoneTree Council to Advise and Co-Invest in Niche Industrial Companies
by | Apr 7, 2023
Industrial opportunities are seeing growing demand. By launching the StoneTree Council, Dallas-based StoneTree Investment Partners is positioning itself to take advantage of this growing market trend and to deliver results for their investors, the firm said.
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Irving’s Alkegen Launches Commercial Production of Groundbreaking Silicon Battery Anode Material
by | Mar 22, 2023
Alkegen, a maker of specialty materials, said its new SiFAB production line is an extension of the company's established large-scale manufacturing facility in Indiana. Featuring micron-sized silicon fiber, SiFAB is enabling Alkegen "to meet growing demand from customers across a wide range of industries, including electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and consumer electronics,” CEO John Dandolph says.
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ATI Inc. Adds Global Business Leader to its Board of Directors
by | Mar 3, 2023

Dallas-based manufacturing company ATI Inc. announced that global business leader Ruby Sharma has been appointed to its board of directors.

Sharma has cross-sector financial and audit committee expertise, and she has a track record of strengthening regulator and investor relationships, and incorporating diversity, equity and inclusion with Fortune 500 multi-national corporations....

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ELM Is Building a 125K-SF HQ and Manufacturing Plant for MicroGrid, Solar Divisions in The Colony

by | Dec 6, 2022
Energy and utility services innovator ELM is constructing a new, 125,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing facility in The Colony for its MicroGrid and Solar divisions. When fully operational, Illinois-based ELM said the facility will employ more than 100 clean-energy professionals, including engineering, production technicians, customer service, sales, and management employees.
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TI Expands Its Space-Grade Products for Missions From New Space to Deep Space
by | Nov 28, 2022

Dallas-based global semiconductor company Texas Instruments is expanding its lineup of space-grade analog semiconductor products in plastic packages that can used for a variety of missions—from new space to deep space....

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South Korean EV Charging Company Picks Plano for Its First U.S. Manufacturing Facility
by | Nov 15, 2022
Seoul-based SK Signet said its new Plano facility will produce a range of fast-charging solutions, including providing the first U.S.-manufactured ultra-fast chargers and power cabinets that offer more than 350kW of power. Expected to reach full capacity by July 2023, the facility will bring up to 183 highly skilled jobs and produce more than 10,000 fast chargers per year.
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Raytheon Intelligence & Space Launches Paid Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program with the Department of Labor, Collin College
by | Nov 14, 2022
The average starting wage after completing an apprenticeship program is $72,000, according to the DOL.

Raytheon said its new Registered Apprenticeship Program—a first-of-its-kind in DFW—will help address a local skills gap and position North Texas as a manufacturing hub.
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Texas Instruments’ Newest Fab Plant in Richardson Kicks Off Wafer Production

by | Oct 3, 2022
The new 300-mm wafer fabrication plant will help support the future growth of semiconductors in electronics. Called RFAB2, the new "fab" is connected to RFAB1, which opened in 2009 as the world’s first 300-mm analog wafer fab. Inside, 15 miles of automated, overhead delivery systems will eventually move wafers between the two fabs. At full production, the Richardson fabs will manufacture more than 100 million analog chips a day that will go into electronics everywhere, TI says.
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Anything Liquid to relocate to Fort Worth suburb from Southern California
SoCal Pharma Company Buys Mid-Cities Building to Relocate HQ, Operations to North Texas
The online pharma company specializes in liquid dietary supplement manufacturing, sales, and distribution.
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South Korea Robotics Maker Is Opening an Americas HQ in Plano
by | Jun 6, 2022
Doosan Robotics focuses on cobots—short for collaborative robots—that can help automate various parts of the manufacturing process across different industries.

With clients including Hyundai, Samsung, Shell, and Johnson & Johnson, Doosan is setting up shop in Plano to serve the Americas and most importantly the U.S., its "single largest market." Its parent company had $15 billion in revenue in 2020.
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Dallas Metro Retains No. 3 Spot with the Most Tech Job Openings in U.S.
by | Mar 7, 2022
The Dallas region added nearly 3,800 new tech job postings last month, bringing its total postings to around 18,600 and ranking it No. 3 among metro areas with the highest amount of job openings in the sector, according to CompTIA. Dallas has held the No. 3 spot since August 2021.
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Texas Instruments Chooses Sherman for New $30B Semiconductor Chip Site

by | Nov 17, 2021
At full build-out, the 4.7 million-square-foot semiconductor fabrication plant will be the largest electronics production facility in Texas and among the largest manufacturing plants of any kind in the U.S.
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Wallbox—a Global EV Charging Leader Expanding to Arlington—Begins Trading on NYSE
by | Oct 4, 2021
Now trading under "WBX," the Barcelona-based EV charging manufacturer closed its merger with N.Y.-based SPAC Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. on October 1.

Arlington leaders recently granted Wallbox incentives to build the company’s first North American plant in the Great Southwest Industrial District.
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Signature Biologics Expands Its Irving Footprint With a New Manufacturing and R&D Headquarters
by | Aug 25, 2021
There, Signature Biologics will manufacture perinatal-derived products that improve the body's natural healing processes in wound, musculoskeletal, and pain management applications.
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Top Georgia Staffing Firm Opens Lewisville Branch to Find Manufacturing and Logistics for Locals
by | Jul 21, 2021
Hire Dynamics is looking to find jobs for local talent in manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce, contact center, and office support via a recently established Lewisville office—its second in Texas.
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