Peter Prengaman

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

August 4, 2022

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5 Ways LTL Shipping Has Impacted E-Commerce

August 30, 2022

Shipping containers at the Port of Baltimore, Aug. 12, 2022.

Six Months into War, Russian Goods Still Flowing to U.S.

August 26, 2022

Walmart store in Derry, N.H., Nov. 18, 2020.

Walmart Reports Strong Earnings as Americans Continue Spending

August 16, 2022

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.

August 4, 2022

In this March 21, 2017 file photo, workers prep poultry at the meatpacking company JBS in Lapa, Brazil. In a major blow to Brazil, the United States on Thursday, June 22, 2017 announced the immediate suspension of all imports of beef products from Latin America’s largest nation because of safety concerns.

U.S. Suspends Brazilian Beef Imports

Since March, U.S. inspectors have refused entry to 11 percent of Brazilian fresh beef products, which is substantially higher than the average rejection rate of 1 percent.

June 23, 2017

Workers of the Municipal Sanitary Surveillance confiscate hot dogs to be analzsed at a supermarket in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, March 20, 2017. The European Union's spokesman in Brazil says the union is temporarily halting some imports of Brazilian meat amid an investigation into a massive scheme of meat adulteration, which involved some of the country's largest producers.

EU, China Ban Brazil's Meat

The developments are a major blow to Brazil, one of the world's largest exporters of meat, which is struggling to emerge from its worst recession in decades.

March 21, 2017