It’s been a year since Mark Hildebrandt and his wife, Lorna, picked up their Chevy Volt — the very first Volt sold in Washtenaw County. His verdict? It’s been an amazing ride. “It’s so unlike your typical ride —so silky smooth, so fun to drive,” says Mark Hildebrandt, who admits ...
French auto parts maker Faurecia SA says it's finalizing a deal to acquire an interior components plant in Saline and creating a joint venture to make parts at a separate plant in Detroit, the Associated Press is reporting.
Scio Township-based Terumo Cardiovascular Systems must pay a $35 million fine and restrict sales of its medical devices after FDA investigators uncovered violations, including failure to properly investigate an incident in which a patient died.
The company that bought the former Visteon Plant in Ypsilanti is hoping to move 250 to 300 employees to the site by July after renovations to the 35-acre property. The Ypsilanti Planning Commission has approved the first phase of a three-phase site plan that will allow Taylor-based Angstrom USA to start ...
Former Bessenberg Binding ownerJon Buller hit a winning streak to remember in late October. Around then he struck a deal for his custom binding company to be purchased by Dexter-based specialty publisher Thomson-Shore Inc. The next day, a buyer made an offer on the downtown Ann Arbor building that housed ...
Ice sports in the Ann Arbor area are by no means a sure thing every winter. A warm, wet rain is all it takes to make pond ice gray and punky, and to turn a hard surface suitable for skating and skiing into a treacherous slop. With that caveat in ...
The Detroit Pistons have a three-game winning streak for the first time this season after a 103-89 victory Monday against the Dallas Mavericks. The Pistons are 3-1 since coach John Kuester moved Tracy McGrady to the starting point guard, Chris Wilcox to power forward, Rodney Stuckey to shooting guard and ...
Japanese automaker Toyota said today that it would spend $50 million over five years to establish an auto safety research center under the umbrella of the Toyota Technical Center, which employs 1,000 workers in York Township and Ann Arbor Township.
For the past several years, the small Audubon Room in the University of Michigan's Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library has become a significant tourist destination in January, when rare documents from the library’s Papyrus Collection and Special Collections Library are displayed for the annual Bible exhibit. This year's presentation, "Celebrating 400 ...
Because Ann Arbor canceled its curbside collection of Christmas trees this year, residents must dispose of trees on their own. And so far, it's going smoothly, said Tom McMurtrie, solid waste coordinator for the city. "Haven't heard that anyone is putting them out to the curb," he said.
Thomson-Shore Inc. specializes in short-run printing jobs, so taking on a job that called for 1,500 copies of The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. 1 sounded like a natural for the company. But that initial order climbed to more than 250,000 copies of the book, and the company is projecting ...
Electronic books loom as a threat to book printers, but Edwards Brothers is pressing ahead with a $5.48 million investment to upgrade production capabilities at its Ann Arbor headquarters. John J. Edwards, president of the 117-year-old short-run book maker, said the investment would boost Edwards Brothers' capacity to manufacture large-format ...
A 50,000-square-foot speculative office building near South State Street that never found a tenant and went back to the lender has a new owner: A longtime local manufacturing company. Tecumseh Products bought the building in State Street Business Park, closing on the deal on Friday.
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