The Nanjing-based vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic products, ET Solar, is collaborating with New Home Green Materials and Learning Center, a soon-to-launch California-based chain of green home improvement superstores, to market ET's products to small to medium sized installers and contractors in the USA.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has signed a manufacturing agreement with the U.S. semiconductor company Integrated Device Technology to take over the latter's chip factory in Oregon.

In an unusual switch of locale, a California-based manufacturer of laboratory equipment, CP Lab Safety, has announced that it has begun manufacturing its line of more than 80 products in the United States — after producing its goods in China for more than seven years.