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New lightweight metals institute will be headquartered in Detroit

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The new $148-million lightweight metals manufacturing institute announced in February by President Obama ( earlier post ) will locate in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, officials from the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) and the city announced today.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Later that year, Trek went public on the Singapore stock exchange, and in four months—from April through July 2000—it manufactured and sold more than 100,000 ThumbDrives under its own label. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks.

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Profile: Li-ion Provider Compact Power, Inc. Focusing on the Automotive and Vehicle Markets

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CPI, established in 2001, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LG Chem of Korea. CPI has 60 employees in its Troy, Michigan facility which acts as a technical and commercial center as well as pilot manufacturing facility capable of assembling packs at prototype quantities using production representative processes. Company Overview.

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