FARMINGTON HILLS—Officials at GreenPath Financial Wellness, a national nonprofit that provides financial counseling and education, was awarded a $1 million grant from the United Services Automobile Association to help communities of color and low-income military families experiencing financial hardships reduce debt and improve credit scores and financial confidence through proven financial counseling and debt management programs.
SALINE—Officials at the Davco business unit of Southfield-based Clarience Technologies announced that the company would invest $3.5 million at its Saline complex to create an “Advanced Electronics Manufacturing Center,” extending its manufacturing capabilities into advanced electronics as the company plans to move into manufacturing components for electric commercial vehicles. Davco manufactures fuel heater/water separators and
DEARBORN—Officials at Ford Motor Co. announced plans to nearly double production of the F-150 Lightningpickup at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn to 150,000 trucks per year to meet high demand. Beginning Thursday, the first group of reservation holders will be invited to place their orders for the F-150 Lightning. “With nearly 200,000 reservations,
BIRMINGHAM—OneStream Solutions, developers of corporate performance management software and services, announced that it had achieved more than $200 million in annual recurring revenue, representing 75 percent year over year growth, as of Dec. 31. Officials said the company increased its customer base by 38 percent in 2021, now totaling over 900 organizations globally. New customers
DETROIT—Heartland Industries has won a three-year, $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to continue research in its “Hemp4Soil” program. This grant will allow Heartland to partner with farming communities to advance research on soil health and carbon sequestration. Heartland’s research will be one of the most sophisticated programs to date
FLINT—The Kentucky-based healthcare business accelerator XLerateHealth announced new funding from the city of Flint via the Small Business Administration Community Navigator Pilot Program and The Community Foundation of Flint. The grants will support the development of a new pre-accelerator program to help prime local healthcare innovation in the Flint area. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, one
OAK PARK—Bollinger Motors, an all-electric truck company, announced a strategic collaboration with EAVX to develop electric work trucks that integrate EAVX’s commercial work-truck bodies and accessories with Bollinger’s electric vehicle platforms. The terms of the collaboration will allow Bollinger and EAVX to design fully integrated electric vehicles for a wide variety of commercial applications, as
SOUTHFIELD—Lawrence Technological University’s Robofest robotics competition will return to in-person events for its 2022 competition season, leading up to the Robofest World Championships to be held on LTU’s Southfield campus May 12-14, 2022. Robofest kicked off its 23rd annual season Wednesday, Dec. 8 in a Zoom call with teachers, students, and volunteers from around the
JACKSON—Consumers Energy, the Jackson-based electric and gas utility, announced agreements to add almost 400 megawatts of clean energy—enough to power nearly 190,000 homes—from three Michigan solar projects in southern central Michigan. The solar developments are part of the company’s Clean Energy Plan to dramatically increase renewable energy, eliminate coal as a fuel source for electricity
TROY—The top-cited problem for new-vehicle owners is connectivity issues with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, according to the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Multimedia Quality and Satisfaction Study. With newly added capabilities, tech companies and automakers are delivering on consumers’ desires to wirelessly connect smartphones to infotainment systems. However, owners whose vehicles have wireless Apple CarPlay
