GRAND HAVEN—GHSP, a manufacturer of vehicle shift systems, pumps, and electronic controls, is opening a 140,000-square-foot global headquarters and innovation campus in Holland. The move nearly doubles the square footage of the company, founded in Grand Haven as a metal stamper in 1924. “This is another step toward the growth strategy that we established in
SOUTHFIELD—Srini Kambhampati has been named the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lawrence Technological University. He succeeds Hsiao-Ping Moore, who retired. Kambhampati comes to LTU from The University of Texas at Tyler, where he was associate provost for research. Earlier, from 2011 to 2017, he was S.A. Lindsey Professor and Chair
ZEELAND—Automotive electronics manufacturer Gentex Corp. has began shipping the latest version of its HomeLink car-to-home automation system to Hauppage, N.Y.-bsaed Voxx Electronics Corp. for sale in the automotive aftermarket. The system is comprised of a Bluetooth-enabled automatic-dimming mirror with integrated buttons that can be programmed to operate a myriad of radio frequency and cloud-based home
ANN ARBOR—The Cybercrime Support Network (CSN) has announced a new leadership sponsorship with New York City-based Verizon Communications Inc. Officials with the Ann Arbor-based organization say the sponsorship will allow them to expand its efforts to provide cybercrime and online fraud victims with the help and resources they need. Millions of American consumers and small businesses are
DETROIT - A fall conference aimed at empowering and motivating millennials, while catering to their networking needs, will be held at the Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit. Scheduled for Sept. 14, the conference will feature speakers including Dennis Archer Jr., CEO of Detroit-based Ignition Media Group; Amanda Lewan, CEO of co-working space Bamboo Detroit; Gwen Jimmere,
EAST LANSING – Farmers in Michigan are dealing with the aftermath of bad weather this spring leaving many acres unplanted while they hope crops planted later in the season can fully mature, and they continue to reel from continuing trade disputes, a joint panel of the House and Senate Agriculture committees was told Tuesday. While
WASHINGTON DC - At least eight states are on course to use paperless voting equipment, or machines without paper records, as the primary polling place equipment during the 2020 elections, a report published Tuesday by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice found. The report said that around 12 percent of Americans, or about 16 million people,
LANSING—In Reuters’ recent ranking of 378 metropolitan areas by how their share of national employment changed from 2010 to 2017, Grand Rapids and Detroit are recognized among the top 20 “superstar” metro areas nationwide, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced. Fully 40 percent of the new jobs generated nationally during that time went to the top 20 places, along
ANN ARBOR—LLamasoft, a developer of supply chain design and modeling software, announced a strategic partnership with JD Logistics, the logistics arm of JD.com, China’s largest retailer. Through the partnership, JD Logistics will exclusively deliver and integrate LLamasoft’s solutions as part of its existing service and technology offerings to select manufacturers, retailers and logistics providers in
ANN ARBOR—Asian carp are capable of surviving and growing in much larger portions of Lake Michigan than scientists previously believed and present a high risk of becoming established, according to a new modeling study from University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues. Some previous studies suggested that low food levels in Lake Michigan could be
