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Toilet Paper Panic Buying Returns Amid Dockworkers’ Strike
Amidst the frenzy, shoppers failed to look at where toilet paper is made.
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Longshoremen bow for a prayer during a strike at the Bayport Container Terminal on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in Houston.
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Dockworkers Join Other Unions in Trying to Fend Off Automation
The coal industry went through a similar reckoning as machines displaced laborers.
October 3, 2024
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Vishay Intertechnology to Close Three Facilities, Cut Direct Labor Positions
The discrete semiconductor manufacturer plans to close a Wisconsin facility in 2026.
October 3, 2024
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Security Breach: Never Let a Good Hack Go to Waste
The best way to hammer home the need for funding and the risks of legacy assets, including software.
October 2, 2024
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Milwaukee Tool Opens Mississippi Manufacturing Facility
The factory is the company’s largest U.S. manufacturing facility to date.
October 2, 2024
Elected officials and local dignitaries joined Pratt & Whitney on October 1 to celebrate the grand opening of the business’s new 845,000-square-foot facility in Oklahoma City, which is now the business’s largest military engines field location in the world. From L-R: Keith Coleman, Oklahoma Alliance for Economic Development; Greg Treacy, vice president of Pratt & Whitney in Oklahoma City; Jill Albertelli, president of Pratt & Whitney’s Military Engines business; Representative Tom Cole; Lieutenant Governor Matt Pinnell; Councilman Todd Stone Congresswoman Stephanie Bice and Christie Gillenwater, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber.
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Pratt & Whitney Opens its Largest Military Engines Facility in Oklahoma City
This investment will create an additional 100 full-time jobs over the next five years.
October 2, 2024
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October 3, 2024
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Oldest Operating Toyota Forklift Found in Burlington, Ontario
The model is known for its solid construction, efficient operation, and ease of maintenance.
October 3, 2024
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U.S. Bans More Chinese Goods Over Forced Labor Allegations
The ban includes a Chinese steel manufacturer and a producer of artificial sweetener.
October 3, 2024
The Mega FlackTek is a bladeless dual asymmetric centrifugal mixer that will become the heart of Anduril's rocket propellant production capability.
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Anduril, FlackTek Partner on 'World's Most Advanced Mixing Machine' to Make Rocket Fuel
The company has already been able to reduce propellant manufacturing time from several hours to several minutes.
October 3, 2024
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DDoS Attacks Skyrocket and Hacktivist Activity Surges
Key industries experienced a 55% increase over the past four years.
October 3, 2024
Moon Yong Moon, Head of Korean Metal Worker's Union Hyundai Motor Branch; Dong Seock Lee, President and Head of Domestic Productions and Chief Safety Officer at Hyundai Motor Company; and the customer who received the 100 millionth and first Hyundai Motor vehicle
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Hyundai Motor Hits Major Milestone with 100 Million Vehicles Produced Globally
The milestone was achieved in just 57 years.
October 3, 2024
People walk past stranded containers in the area between Tranum and Slette beach in Denmark, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023, a day after a Maersk ship dropped 46 containers off the coast between Bulbjerg and Svinkloev in the northwestern part of Jutland, during storm Pia.
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Thousands of Shipping Containers Have Been Lost at Sea. What Happens When they Burst Open?
More than 20,000 shipping containers have tumbled overboard in the last decade and a half.
October 3, 2024
Visitors look over a 2024 Cybertruck in the Tesla display at the Electrify Expo, July 14, 2024, in north Denver.
Quality Control
Tesla Issues 5th Recall for the New Cybertruck Within a Year, the Latest Due to Rearview Camera
Tesla is recalling more than 27,000 Cybertrucks this time.
October 3, 2024
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How to Overcome 7 Common Production Pains
Manufacturers want to remain agile, but many are mired in “the way we’ve always done it.”
October 2, 2024
Weaving craftsman Shigeru Uchida examines the evenness of the fabric being woven by the old power looms at Momotaro Jeans in Kojima, Okayama prefecture, Japan, on Sept. 4, 2024.
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This Japanese Town Is Home to 40 Jeans Manufacturers, Stores
Even the main road is named Jeans Street.
October 2, 2024
In this image taken from video from WSB-TV, smoke rises from the roof of a BioLab plant, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Conyers, Ga.
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Chemical Cloud From Plant Fire Prompts New Shelter-In-Place Alert
The order had just ended a day earlier.
October 2, 2024
An aerial view of quartz mines in Spruce Pine, N.C., as taken from a plane on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.
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North Carolina Town That Produces Quartz for Tech Products Is Devastated by Helene
It's used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber-optic cables.
October 2, 2024
Dockworker Meikysha Wright and others strike outside the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.
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Dockworkers May Have Negotiating Advantage in Strike Against U.S. Ports
Organized labor is enjoying rising public support and has had recent victories in other industries.
October 2, 2024
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Eli Lilly Building $4.5B Pharmaceutical Factory in Indiana
The Medicine Foundry will allow Lilly to further develop solutions to optimize manufacturing processes.
October 2, 2024
Atlanta Braves outfielder Jorge Soler wears custom Nike Air Jordan cleats in the dugout during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sept. 5, 2024, in Atlanta.
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Nike Slumps as Demand Slows
Analysts have said the company has lost its focus on coming up with cool products.
October 2, 2024