Verena Dobnik

Associated Press

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

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.

Ducklings are raised cage-free and then force-fed to produce foie gras, the fattening of duck liver that is served at restaurants and sold at grocery stores.

NYC Considers Foie Gras Ban

City council members have signed a bill to ban the sale of foie gras on the grounds that producing it constitutes cruelty to animals.

In this June 28, 1944, file photo, garment workers sew clothing at a loft factory in New York. Hundreds of thousands of garment workers once toiled in the sweaty, elbow-to-elbow workshops of midtown Manhattan before the whirring of sewing machines was mostly silenced by foreign competition. But a group of New Yorkers - manufacturers, landlords, designers, politicians - want to preserve some of the bustling sewing scene by zoning the neighborhood for at least 300,000 square feet of garment workshops now serving higher-end designers.

More Change for NY's Shrinking Garment District

The city's garment district isn't dead yet.

In this March 30, 2017 photo, a worker welds near a stairwell inside one of several ferryboats being built for a new fleet of ferries for New York City, at the Metal Shark Shipyard in Franklin, La. The city is investing $335 million in the Citywide Ferry Service, betting that it will attract millions of passengers in waterfront neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx that are now a distant walk from overcrowded subways.

Ferry Fleets Born on the Bayou

Shipyard workers are scrambling to finish a new ferry fleet in time for summer.

In this Wednesday, June 22, 2016 photo, a worker helps set another load of concrete into the walls of 3 World Trade Center in New York. The World Trade Center's latest new skyscraper has reached its full height of 80 stories.

WTC's New $2.5B Skyscraper Tops Out

A series of construction security fences signal that there's still plenty of unfinished work before the site is totally back to life.