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Boeing Gives $250,000 to Tornado Recovery, Relief Efforts
The company employs more than 3,300 people in Mississippi and Alabama.
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The Hoover Treated Wood Products leadership team breaks ground on a new fire-retardant wood treatment facility in Fairfield, Texas.
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Hoover Breaks Ground on $9M Treated Wood Products Plant in Texas
The plant will treat fire-retardant wood products to be used in new construction.
March 29, 2023
Honeywell
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KORE Power Chooses Honeywell Technologies for Lithium Battery Gigafactory
Fully integrated digital solution will deliver remote visualization and control over operations.
March 29, 2023
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Rivian Tells Remote Workers to Relocate
Many employees may not be willing to relocate.
March 28, 2023
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Nokian Tyres Announces Huge Expansion in Tennessee
The company is building an automated warehouse that can hold up to 600,000 tires.
March 28, 2023
Airproducts
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Air Products Wins Over $130M in NASA Contracts
The company will provide liquid hydrogen for several NASA locations.
March 28, 2023
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LG Energy Solution to Build Battery Manufacturing Complex in Arizona
March 28, 2023
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Reshoring Jobs Hit All-Time High
March 27, 2023
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Why Should Operators Run GMP-Certified Facilities?
March 27, 2023
A worker stands inside a blast furnace at the Zaporizhstal steel plant, in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
A Steel Plant Ready for War Shows Hit to Ukraine's Economy
March 27, 2023
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Saudi Aramco engineers escort reporters on a tour of the Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant, which is designed to process 4.0 billion standard cubic feet per day of sweet gas, a natural gas that does not contain significant amounts of hydrogen sulfide, in Hawiyah, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, on June 28, 2021.
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Saudi Aramco to Invest Billions in Chinese Petrochemicals
Including the construction of a new refinery.
March 27, 2023
In a frame grab from video, United Auto Workers presidential candidate Shawn Fain is interviewed, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, in Detroit.
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Challenger Wins Close Race to Lead United Auto Workers Union
He vowed to take a more confrontational stance in negotiating with the big automakers.
March 27, 2023
Workers walk on a skybridge to and from a large Intel facility in Hillsboro, Ore., on March 17, 2023.
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Factory or Farm? Oregon May Alter Land Use for Chipmakers
Oregon — and its "Silicon Forest" — is competing with other states for multibillion-dollar microchip factories.
March 27, 2023
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Pratt & Whitney Investing $255M in Oklahoma City Facility
The new 845,000-square-foot facility will act as a hub for depot operations for all Pratt & Whitney military engines.
March 27, 2023
PLM is not just a specific technology platform. It is a fundamental way to manage and better implement a company’s vision of products and services.
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How PLM Delivers on a More Agile Business Mindset
PLM has the capacity to help you launch products with the potential to significantly change—and improve—how you do business.
March 24, 2023
Only next-generation stud finders like those from Zircon can locate wood studs and also recognize and filter out non-wood targets such as plastic pipes and plumbing.
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The Stud Finder: Reinvented
These next-generation models incorporate multiple sensors and signal processing tech.
March 24, 2023
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Electric Smelting Furnace Could Cut Steel Emission By More Than 80%
A pilot plant will test and optimize iron production using a new type of furnace.
March 24, 2023
Construction continues on the plant, part of a $5.6 billion joint project by Ford Motor Co. and battery maker SK on Friday, March 24, 2023 in Stanton, Tenn. Ford says its new assembly plant being built in western Tennessee will be able to build up to 500,000 electric pickup trucks per year at full production.
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Ford's New U.S. Plant Could Make 500,000 Electric Pickups Per Year
The new site will employ about 6,000 people and cost the company roughly $5.6 billion.
March 24, 2023
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Scandal-Plagued Japan Tech Giant Toshiba Gets Tender Offer
The buyout would keep Toshiba's business Japanese in an alliance with Japanese partners.
March 24, 2023
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4 Ways to Apply PLCs in Manufacturing
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are widely used in manufacturing to oversee and influence various processes.
March 24, 2023
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EVs Not As Sustainable As Advertised
The biggest problem is the high-price battery.
March 23, 2023
Albemarle
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Albemarle Announces $1.3B Lithium Processing Facility in U.S.
Production will support the manufacturing of some 2.4 million electric vehicles each year.
March 23, 2023
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Tire Manufacturer Building World’s Largest Rooftop Solar Panel
It will cover 100,000 square meters.
March 23, 2023
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Most Americans Dissatisfied with Parental Leave Policies
When employers aren't legally obligated to provide any paid parental leave, parents in the workforce are left behind.
March 23, 2023
Desalination
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DOE Awards $9M to 12 Projects to Advance Desalination and Water Reuse Tech
The selected research projects will attack two key process challenges.
March 23, 2023