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LISTEN: Bagged Salad Maker Faces $1M in Fines After Workplace Fatality
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that Taylor Farms New Jersey, a vegetable processing subsidiary of bagged salad maker Taylor Farms, faces more than $1 million in fines following an inspection triggered by a workplace fata...
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LISTEN: A Solar Motorcycle Design Inspired by Leopard Movement
Within the studio’s ‘Invent and Integrate’ design approach, Mask Architects has unveiled a fully self-chargeable solar motorcycle named Solaris. At its core, Solaris looks a little bit like any other bike, but upon charging, retractable photovo...
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LISTEN: Gen Z in Manufacturing: Young Workers Want More Skills, Not More Titles
Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing, a podcast where I talk to young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the indu...
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LISTEN: Guilty Pleas Follow Scheme to Smuggle Illegal Baby Formula Into U.S.
Last Friday, Able Groupe pleaded guilty to a pair of felony charges for smuggling illegal baby formula into the United States. According to the Justice Department, the company, which also did business as Little Bundle and Huggable, ...
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LISTEN: Critical Auto Supplier Catches Fire for Third Time in Two Months
Aluminum manufacturer Novelis suffered a third fire in two months at its plant in Oswego, New York. The company announced on its website that the fire began around 8:45 a.m. on Nov. 20 and that multiple...
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LISTEN: Baltimore Bridge Collapse Blamed on Single Loose Wire
In March 2024, a nearly 1,000-foot-long container ship lost power and crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the structure to collapse. Six highway workers were killed in the accident and estimates for replacing the bri...
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LISTEN: Ford is Now Selling Used Cars on Amazon
Ford has revealed a new sales strategy that’s incorporating the biggest e-commerce seller in America.The automaker recently announced that, starting this week, buyers can purchase pre-owned Ford vehicles on Amazon.
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LISTEN: California Doles Out $100 Million to Improve Jobs, Manufacturing in the State
California Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday announced nearly $100 million in tax credits spread across nine different companies to create new jobs and strengthen manufacturing in the Golden State. The Governor's Office of Business an...
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LISTEN: Tesla Says No More Chinese Components in U.S. Cars
Tesla is asking suppliers to remove all Chinese components used in the manufacturing of its cars for the U.S. market. According to a new report from the
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LISTEN: Tesla Recalls 10,500 Powerwalls After Fires
Tesla yesterday issued a recall for its Tesla Powerwall 2 AC Battery Power Systems. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the lithium-ion battery cells in about 10,500 Powerwall 2 systems can cause the unit to stop functioning du...
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LISTEN: Oshkosh Defense to Cut 160 Workers Following Q3 Sales Slide
On the heels of securing an $89 million U.S. Army modernization contract and introducing a new family of multi-mission autonomous vehicles, Oshkosh Defense is making headlines again; this time for workforce reductions.Following a $52.8 m...
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LISTEN: Honda Wheels Could Fall Off Due to an Italian Fence Mishap
Honda has issued a massive recall impacting hundreds of thousands of Civic models and the root cause is, you guessed it, a mixup with a fence in Italy.The automaker warned that 18-inch aluminum alloy wheels that were sold as accessories ...
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LISTEN: How This 19-Foot-Long Station Wagon Hit 180 MPH
A fascinating feat of automotive engineering is set to be auctioned later this month. The 'Beast' is a 19-foot long, two-door station wagon made in 1972 by British engineer John Dodd, and combines an aircraft-derived engine in a custom chassis....
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LISTEN: Musk’s Tunneling Company Fined $500K for Dumping Wastewater into Manholes
The Boring Company, a tunneling firm founded by Elon Musk, received a fine of about $500,000 for dumping wastewater at two sites across its Las Vegas project,
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LISTEN: Novelis Reveals Plan to Restart Hot Mill Damaged in Fire
Novelis announced in its latest quarterly report that it plans to restart a hot mill damaged by a fire at...
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LISTEN: Flooring Manufacturer to Close 3 Plants, Cut 500 Jobs At Christmastime
A McAdenville, North Carolina carpet factory will be closing its doors, with layoffs set to begin just two days after Christmas.Mannington Mills is a fifth generation family-owned business based in Salem, NJ that’s produced flooring prod...
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LISTEN: ATS Countersues Andersen After Accusations of ’Poor Management’ for Project That Ran 860 Days Late
Last month, Andersen Corporation, a leading manufacturer of windows and doors, sued automation company ATS Corporation, for allegedly failing to deliver equipment for a multi-million dollar factory pro...
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LISTEN: Anduril Opens Ghost Shark Factory as First Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Rolls Off the Line
The project went from prototype to fleet in less than three years.
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LISTEN: Sandvik Unveils “eNimon” to Highlight the Critical Role of Sustainable Mining
Swedish engineering company Sandvik says the global transition to sustainability faces a major challenge: while technologies such as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar panels depend on “clean” minerals, the demand for materials like co...
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Gen Z in Manufacturing: How Gen Z Decides Between University and Trade School
Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing, a podcast where I interview young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the in...
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LISTEN: Amazon Believes Robotics Could ‘Flatten’ Its Hiring Within a Decade
Automating most company operations could prevent more than 600,000 new hires.
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LISTEN: Rivian Reportedly Laying Off 600 Workers
Electric vehicle maker Rivian plans to lay off approximately 4% of its workforce, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report...
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LISTEN: World’s Largest Playable Gaming Screen Carried by a Helicopter in Miami
Some marketing efforts are just simple PR stunts, while others are truly revolutionary feats of engineering. But when a gamer and a hip-hop artist take to the skies to play a video game on a giant screen suspended from a helicopter while flying...
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LISTEN: Hypersonic Space Plane Promises Delivery in One Hour, Anywhere on Earth
Even a fairly straightforward pizza delivery still requires at least 30 minutes to bake the pie, throw it in a car and drive it to your door. But Inversion, an aerospace and defense technology company, is raising the stakes by promising to deli...
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