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Japanese firm UD Trucks Corp., a unit of Volvo AB, will invest about $60 million to set up a commercial vehicle diesel engine production line near Tokyo, Bloomberg reported Monday.

The U.S. economy’s service sector expanded at a faster pace in July, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

Commercial vehicle component manufacturer Accuride Corp. said it earned $6.5 million in the second quarter, compared with a loss of $36.1 million a year ago.

One of the last toll-free bridges across the Delaware River would charge truck tolls of $4 an axle under a plan to seek private investors to rebuild and operate the Interstate 95 Bridge that connects Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

U.S. manufacturing activity rose in July at the slowest pace this year, the Institute for Supply Management said Monday.

Manufacturing activity in the Chicago region grew in July, showing expansion for the tenth straight month, the Institute for Supply Chain Management-Chicago said Friday.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said Thursday it returned to profit in the second quarter after a loss last year.

Cummins Inc. said Tuesday its second-quarter profit jumped to $245 million, or $1.25 a share, from $56 million, or 28 cents, a year ago.

For more than 15 years, Just Born Inc., the Pennsylvania candy maker of Peeps and of Mike and Ike, transported newly made confections from its Bethlehem plant to two warehouses 75 miles away.