Biden invokes Defense Production Act to boost baby formula manufacturing to ease shortage

President Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act to increase baby formula manufacturing to ease a nationwide shortage caused by the closure of a key plant in Michigan. Biden is requ...

Democratized. Distributed. Decision-Driven. Welcome To Manufacturers’ New Data Future.

Rather than being powered by leaner processes and lower costs, the driving force behind the … [+] industry’s next stage of operational improvements will be technology. And, especially, the evolu...

How Furniture Brands And Manufacturers Are Coping With Ongoing Supply Chain Strain

Castlery is one furniture retailer looking to work around ongoing supply chain delays. Castlery Supply chains and logistics were thrown into chaos during the pandemic, creating a number of challenges ...

Princeton University Discloses Large Stake in Lithium Miner

Text size Students walk on campus at Princeton University. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images Princeton University disclosed that it owned a large stake in an early-stage lithium miner. In fact, Princet...

EVgo Misses Estimates. The Beaten-Up Stock Rises Anyway.

Text size Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle charging company EVgo reported first-quarter results that missed Wall Street expectations. Shares were rising anyway. They have been beaten u...

Rivian’s Earnings Missed Forecasts. Why the Stock Is Up.

Text size Electric-vehicle maker Rivian went public in November. Courtesy Rivian Electric-truck start-up Rivian Automotive missed first-quarter estimates. Shares are up, anyway, because the report was...

Tesla’s China Sales Take A Pounding As Covid Lockdown Drags On

A driver in PPE moves a new Tesla passenger car from Shanghai off a cargo ship in the port in Yantai in China’s Shandong province on April 25, 2022. Future Publishing via Getty Images Tesla’s El...

Did Nvidia Profit From Crypto Mining? Consider Its Manufacturing Partners’ Stocks; Cryptos Have a Rough Day

“The project never launched, partly because Facebook burned its reputation to the ground selling our data and potentially destabilizing democracy. So regulators worldwide acted on our behalf to ...

GE and Boeing Stock Trades Might Be Signs of Market Capitulation

Text size A picture shows helmets with General Electric logos. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images Monday was a terrible day for stocks. The last few days have been dreadful. With markets reeling, inves...

Innovative Manufacturing Requires Workers And Machines In Tandem, MIT Professors Say At Symposium

Professor John Hart opening remarks at the Manufacturing at MIT symposium on May 6, 2022. Julie Diop We might be witnessing the dawn of a new industrial era in this decade. Strikingly, it might be des...

Biden Announces AM Forward Program To Foster Adoption Of Additive Manufacturing

Laser sintering is one of the technologies used for the additive manufacturing of metals getty This morning President Biden is announcing the Additive Manufacturing Forward (AM Forward) program, a par...

Tesla Schedules Its Annual Meeting. A Stock Split Approaches.

Text size Tesla scheduled its 2022 annual stockholders meeting for later this year. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Mark your calendars: Tesla ’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders will be held on Aug. 2,...

White House announces $3.1 billion for U.S. EV battery manufacturing

U.S. President Joe Biden gestures after driving a Hummer EV during a tour at the General Motors ‘Factory ZERO’ electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan, November 17, 2021. Jona...

Blockchain in Manufacturing Market Expected to Hit $17 Billion by 2027

The urge to streamline operations and track assets with unprecedented precision are some of the factors expected to make the blockchain in the global manufacturing market hit $17.047 billion by 2027, ...

Will Manufacturing Ever Become Sustainable? No, But At Least Stop Doing Stupid Stuff That Slows The Regenerative Economy Of The Future

You might have noticed that everyone says they are “sustainable” these days. True statement. You cannot find any company globally that claims to be unsustainable. Every big company has an ESG function...

QuantumScape Stock Falls. Earnings Aren’t the Problem.

Text size Investors know that significant sales are still years away for QuantumScape. Courtesy QuantumScape Solid-state battery technology company QuantumScape reported a wider-than-expected loss for...

Three Areas Holding Back The $10.6B 3D Printing Industry

Market research firm SmarTech Analysis recently released its data for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. It determined that, in 2021, the 3D printing sector reached $10.6 billion in revenue, ex...

Boeing Stock Falls. Its New 777X Jet Is Likely to Be Delayed.

Text size A demonstration flight for the Boeing 777X at the 2021 Dubai Airshow. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images Boeing’s newest model twin-aisle jet—the 777X—probably won’t be in service until 20...

Cleveland-Cliffs Crushes Earnings Estimates. Contract Steel Pricing Does It.

Rising prices helped steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs report much better-than-expected first-quarter sales and earnings. Prices for Cliffs steel rose even as spot prices for steel dropped in the first qua...

This Is What Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Other Company Is Worth

Text size The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling company, just raised more capital. Robyn Beck/Getty Images One of Elon Musk’s companies just got more valuable. No, this isn’t about Tesla (ti...

Tesla’s Earnings Crushed Expectations, Setting More Records. The Stock Is Up.

Tesla’s first-quarter profit was far higher than expected. Above, CEO Elon Musk speaks at the opening party for Tesla’s new factory in Texas. SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP / Getty Images Text siz...

Waves Of Grain And Fruited Plains The Recipe For Making An American Economic Apple Pie

Farmers driving John Deere tractors fitted with mowers harvest a field of alfalfa, Bakersfield, … [+] California, circa 1950. (Photo by Orville Logan Snider/Frederic Lewis/Archive Photos/Getty I...

Rivian Predicts a Shortage for EVs Far Bigger Than Chips—Batteries

Text size A battery pack heads to the chassis line at the Rivian plant in Illinois. Courtesy Rivian The menu of shortages is expanding for car makers. First, the appetizer: the chip shortage. The main...

Ford Is About to Make a Big Strategic Decision

Ford  (F) – Get Ford Motor Company Report wants to go fast.  The automotive group does not hide its ambitions to be one of the largest manufacturers of electric vehicles within five years. The c...

Ineos warns high energy costs threaten British manufacturing

Petrochemicals group Ineos has warned that British manufacturing is coming under threat from competing regions such as the US because of its higher energy costs. Britain’s largest privately owned comp...

Manufacturing And Inflation Explained

Consumers see jacked up prices at the gas pump, notice a rising bill for household items, or deal with the reality of an expensive housing market. But they may not understand the additional market for...

EV Battery Firm QuantumScape Stock Is Rising

Text size Car batteries at a factory. STR/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle battery technology company QuantumScape picked up a new rating. It’s lukewarm, but the stock is rising Wednesday. Deutsc...

Profit Margins Will Be Down in Earnings Season. When Buying Beaten-Up Stocks Makes Sense.

Text size Lulu Lemon Athletica shares dropped 12% this year before it reported earnings, then climbed 10% after the company beat earnings estimates. Octavio Jones/Getty Images The good news is that co...

General Dynamics Stock: Why It’s Time to Buy

Text size General Dynamics M1 Abrams battle tanks. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Russia’s war in Ukraine shows no sign of ending, and the news of civilian deaths in places like Kramatorsk, Bucha, and Irpi...

The Chip Sector Has a New Worry in Plant Shutdown for Key PFAS Chemicals

Text size PFAS chemicals are used in the etching process for chip manufacturing. Dreamstime The fragile semiconductor supply chain has one more thing to worry about. Chips have been relatively scarce ...

Ford Stock: Auto Industry Problems Growing, Car Stock Enthusiasm Wanes

Text size The Ford logo is displayed on the sales lot at the Ford Store in San Leandro, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The auto sector faces a number of headwinds that are too much for one a...

Elon Musk Opens Tesla’s ‘Giga Texas’ That He Says Is The Biggest U.S. Plant

Elon Musk celebrates the opening of Tesla’s Giga Texas plant in Austin. Tesla via YouTube Elon Musk marked the official start of production at Tesla’s new Giga Texas plant in Austin, saying it’s...