Volvo is relocating 220 positions from Asheville, N.C. and will begin making new product lines in Shippensburg, which could create around 400 new jobs over several years.

Axion Power battery plant, located in New Castle, PA, is adding more than a dozen jobs to help produce its target of 1 million batteries, or battery equivalents, per year.

This center marks the largest investment the UK company has ever made in the United States.

Due to increasing production demands, the company will hire more than 100 additional production workers.

MANTEC, the Industrial Resource Center serving south central PA, has published its Spring 2011 newsletter.

The manufacturing industry added 17,000 jobs in March, while the unemployment rate dropped as the economy continues to steadily expand.

In an article published March 11, the Central Penn Business Journal asked experts to predict what changes the next 10 years would bring to PA’s major economic sectors. They pointed to the manufacturing industry as one of the biggest opportunities.

Bill Toland of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently interview Petra Mitchell, president of Catalyst Connection, on the details of our study.

Journalist Malia Spencer of the Pittsburgh Business Times reports on our study from a Pittsburgh angle.

Reporter Joe Napsha covers our Feb. 15 press conference.