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Nissan Plans $34 Million Expansion At Tennessee Engine Plant
Nissan North America Inc. has launched production of forged crankshafts at its Decherd Powertrain Assembly Plant in Decherd, Tenn., and used the occasion to announce plans to add cylinder-block casting at the same site. The project will begin later this year. Read more

Marked Slowdown Forecast For 2007 Manufacturing Production Growth
U.S. manufacturing production will advance a modest 5% this year and then slow markedly to 2.5% growth in 2007, suggests the most recent detailed quarterly economic forecast from Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, an Arlington, Va.-based business and public policy research group. Read more

Port Of New Orleans Rebounds
Cargo tonnage for the vital logistics link has exceeded pre-Katrina levels. Read more

Airgas CFO Resigns; Interim Named
Roger F. Millay has resigned his position as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Airgas Inc., the largest distributor of industrial, specialty and medical gases and related products in the nation. Read more


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