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August 4, 2022
In this photo provided by NASA, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.. NASA's Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency's deep space exploration systems.
NASA Aims for Saturday Launch of New Moon Rocket
August 31, 2022
BAE Systems’ Combat System Mission Crew Workstation (CSMCW) is now qualified for the P-8A Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Patrol Aircraft – adding to the aircraft’s mission capability.
BAE Systems’ Workstation Qualified for P-8A Poseidon Aircraft
August 30, 2022
Medical
Gerresheimer Invests Some $94M in U.S. Expansion
August 18, 2022
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Wind turbines turn near the village of Feldheim, rear left, near Treuenbrietzen, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022.
Product Development
In One Tiny German Town, Nobody Worries About Energy Bills
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford heads to the Norfolk, Va., naval station on April 14, 2017.
Product Development
U.S. Navy's Newest Carrier to Deploy
A U.S. Army program, Northrop Grumman’s innovative PGK combines GPS guidance and fuze functions for conventional artillery all-in-one device that provides conventional artillery projectiles the ability to consistently outperform the Army’s program objective for accuracy.
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Northrop Has Delivered More Than 100,000 Artillery Precision Guidance Kits to U.S. Army
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Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.
August 4, 2022
Gov. Andy Beshear, Envision AESC executives and a group of elected officials break ground on the $2 billion, 3-million-square-foot Envision AESC electric vehicle battery technology gigafactory to be constructed in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. The Envision AESC gigafactory in south-central Kentucky will produce battery cells and modules that will power electric vehicles produced by multiple automakers.
Advanced Mfg
Groundbreaking Advances Emerging Vehicle Battery Production
The $2 billion plant will create 2,000 full-time jobs.
August 31, 2022
Braidy Industries Inc. CEO Craig Bouchard, right, and then-Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin speak with reporters in Wurtland, Ky., on April 26, 2017. Braidy Industries still needs to raise $500 million to build a long-promised $1.7 billion aluminum plant in Appalachia, a top company executive told Kentucky lawmakers on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.
Regulation
Gov. Tries to Save Kentucky Aluminum Mill Deal
The company wants to build a $1.9 billion plant.
July 22, 2022
Search and rescue crews work at the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory on Dec. 12, 2021 in Mayfield, Ky. The company that operated a Kentucky candle factory leveled by a deadly tornado is planning to ramp up production. Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday, June 23, 2022, that Mayfield Consumer Products plans a $33 million investment at a nearby plant. It plans to employ more than 500 people full time in the next five years at its factory in Hickory, Kentucky.
Safety
Candle Co. with Plant Leveled by Tornado Will Expand
The company's plant in Mayfield took a direct hit from the tornado that devastated the town last December.
June 24, 2022
Firefighters search a debris field that came from a house that was ripped off its foundation and trees were cut off after a tornado ripped along Highway F at the intersection of Stub Road in St. Charles County, Mo., on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021.
Safety
Planning Questions Emerge at Tornado-Destroyed Candle Plant
Eight of the 110 workers on the overnight shift Friday are confirmed dead.
December 13, 2021
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during the official announcement of Ford Motor Company along with SK Innovations in building two electric battery factories in Glendale, Ky., at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021.
Product Development
GE Appliances Announces $450M Investment
It will add more than 1,000 jobs.
October 29, 2021
Bettye Jo Boone, a 30 year employee of Heaven Hill, pickets in front of Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Ky., Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. Declaring an impasse in contract talks with striking union workers, global spirits producer Heaven Hill said Monday, Oct. 18 it will start hiring permanent replacement workers for bottling and warehouse operations in Kentucky.
Operations
Amid Strike, Bourbon Maker to Start Hiring Replacement Workers
About 420 union members voted last month to reject a new five-year contract offer.
October 19, 2021
United Auto Workers President Ray Curry, right, bumps fists with Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO, left, after a presentation on the planned factory to build electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, in Memphis, Tenn. The plant in Tennessee is to be built near Stanton, Tenn.
Operations
Ford's Plan for New EV Factories Raises Question Over Union Jobs
The carmaker is going to hire 11,000 workers, but just how good will those jobs be?
October 1, 2021
A truck drives down a rural road near a water tower marking the location of the Memphis Regional Megasite on Sept. 24, 2021, in Stanton, Tenn. Ford Motor Co. and SK Innovation of South Korea plan to build three new electric-vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant by 2025 in Tennessee and Kentucky. The industrial site in Stanton will be the location for a factory to produce electric F-Series pickups and a battery factory.
Operations
Ford to Add 10,800 Jobs Making Electric Vehicles, Batteries
It is the largest manufacturing investment Ford has ever made.
September 28, 2021
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Operations
New CEO to Oversee Struggling $1.7B Mill Project
Kentucky taxpayers have a direct stake in Braidy’s plans to build the aluminum rolling mill.
June 24, 2020
Rolled Aluminum
Operations
Aluminum Plant Project Short $500M
Despite a state investment of $15M, the project has struggled from the start to obtain the private capital it needs.
February 12, 2020
In this June 20, 2018 file photo, Catoctin Creek Distillery whiskey is on display in a tasting room in Purcellville, Va.
Food & Beverage
U.S. Whiskey Exports Decline
President Trump’s trade war has dampened the overseas market for American-made whiskey.
February 12, 2020
Indica
Food & Beverage
Leading Hemp Processor Files for Bankruptcy
It's a 'gut punch' to the fledgling industry.
February 7, 2020
In this April 26, 2107 file photo, Braidy Industries Inc. CEO Craig Bouchard, right, and Republican Gov. Matt Bevin speak with reporters in Wurtland, Ky. Braidy Industries said Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, that its chairman and CEO, Craig Bouchard, would step down from that role but would remain a member of the company's board of directors. The company offered no reason for the change, which comes at a crucial time for efforts to build the mill near Ashland.
Operations
Shakeup at Company Planning $1.7B Plant
The project is staked to millions in taxpayer money.
February 2, 2020
I Phone
Supply Chain
Apple Awards $250M for Glass
Combined with the $200M received from Apple's Advanced Manufacturing Fund, the combined investments will support R&D for next-gen devices.
September 18, 2019