Matti Huuhtanen

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.

A Volvo XC 90 during an interview with Volvo Cars CEO Hakan Samuelsson at Volvo Cars Showroom in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday, July 5, 2017. Samuelsson said that all Volvo cars will be electric or hybrid within two years. The Chinese-owned automotive group plans to phase out the conventional car engine.

Volvo Nixes Traditional Engines

The company is the first major carmaker to forgo combustion engines.

US biochemical engineer Frances Arnold, speaks after winning the Millennium Technology Prize 2016 during the awards ceremony in Helsinki, Finland, on Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Arnold has won this year's $1.2 million Millennium Technology Prize for discoveries in 'directed evolution,' which has helped sustainable development and clean technology become available in many areas of industry.

Engineer Wins $1.2 Million

The Millennium Prize, for technological innovations that enhance the quality of human life in a sustainable way, is awarded every two years.

Helicopter rotor blades are loaded onto a truck following the Friday April 29 helicopter crash on the coast of Norway near Bergen, Sunday May 1, 2016. Emergency crews salvaged the wrecked fuselage of the Airbus helicopter from the sea Saturday along with the flight recorders, and retrieved the rotor blades following the crash which killed the 13 people on board.

Airbus Says to Inspect Rotors

Video footage seemed to show a loose helicopter rotor being propelled through the air immediately before the crash.