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January 29, 2019 – Bosch has assumed full control of EM-motive, a European manufacturer of electric motors that was set up as a 50-50 joint venture with Daimler in 2011.
January 28, 2019 – Barrie, Ontario's Prodomax Automation, a member of the Germany-based Jenoptik Group, has won two new orders in North America that together amount to just over EUR 12 million.
January 25, 2019 – Fiat Chrysler is recalling nearly 180,000 pickup trucks in North America to fix an electrical problem that can knock out the power steering.
January 25, 2019 – The head of the New York City Transit Authority and former chief executive at the Toronto Transit Commission says he is having "deja vu times two" with problems around trains from Bombardier Inc.
January 25, 2019 – American automakers, aluminum producers, manufacturers and farmers are running out of time, money and patience as the North American tariff standoff persists, and they're pleading with the United States to put an end to it.
January 25, 2019 – Canada's largest private sector union is calling for a boycott of General Motors vehicles made in Mexico as part of a campaign to save GM's assembly operation in Oshawa, Ont.
January 24, 2019 –Bombardier Inc. has signed a deal to acquire the Global 7500 wing manufacturing operations and assets from Triumph Group Inc., reinforcing the Quebec plane-and-train maker's focus on its flagship business jet.
January 23, 2019 – The head of Unifor has ruled out a potential boycott of General Motors in the campaign to save the Oshawa Assembly Plant.
January 21, 2019 – Pipeline services company Shawcor Ltd. has signed a deal to buy ZCL Composites Inc., a maker of fibreglass reinforced plastic underground storage tanks, for $308 million.
January 18, 2019 – Unifor's Quebec director Renaud Gagne is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to follow in Ontario Premier Doug Ford's footsteps by pledging support for General Motors workers faced with a looming plant closure.
January 18, 2019 – The Canadian Association of Mold Makers (CAMM) recently announced the new name for the national automation arm of their association.
January 18, 2019 – Automation companies are encouraged to join the Ontario trade mission to Automate, the biennial automations solutions trade show happening April 8-11 2019 in Chicago.
January 18, 2019 – Tesla, recognizing as imperative its ability to produce a cheaper electric car, told employees Friday that it must cut seven per cent of its workforce.
January 15, 2019 – General Motors says it has reaffirmed plans to close the Oshawa Assembly Plant in meetings with the Ontario and federal governments.
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