3 Things To Consider This Friday

Alabama Auto Production Hit Record High In 2016

by Business Facilities
January 05, 2017

Alabama’s auto production climbed to a new record high in 2016, as workers at the state’s three auto assembly plants kept up a brisk pace of building SUVs, pickups and sedans for markets around the world.

Honda, Hyundai and Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama combined to produce at least 1,048,597 vehicles, according to year-end figures from the companies. The tally is approximate because some numbers are preliminary. The total represents a 1.4 percent increase over 2015, when the automakers topped the 1 million mark for the first time and set the previous annual record.

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Toyota Alabama production up 11 percent in 2016

By William Thornton
January 10, 2017 at 2:27 PM, updated January 10, 2017 at 3:18 PM

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama saw tremendous growth in 2016 as the Huntsville plant finished the year with a historic milestone, and aimed at another.

The plant produced 702,014 engines last year, according to company officials. That’s a record number for the plant, and an 11 percent increase over 2015, when the plant pumped out more than 631,000.

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Move Over Mobile Phone: The Next Ad Frontier is the Windshield

By Alex Webb
on January 6, 2017, 6:00 AM CST Updated on January 6, 2017, 12:16 PM CST

The next frontier in digital advertising may be your car’s windshield. Automakers, technology companies and glass manufacturers are teaming up to turn the display that graces the front of an iPhone into the windshield of a car — one that can show ads, directions and vehicle information to the person behind the wheel.

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Bonus Story–

Manufacturing: Automotive Industry – US Industry Report 2016

January 10, 2017

The “Manufacturing: Automotive Industry” industry report from Statista consolidates the most important industry information while highlighting important and interesting data regarding the status quo and trajectory of the industry with forecasts through the year 2020.

The Manufacturing Industry Report for the Automotive Industry in 2016 is now available on Manufacturing.net. To receive the full report, go to their website and register.

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