3+ week, 4+ day ago  (359+ words) Ferrara Candy Company announced February 22 that it would spend $675 million to build a new candy factory in Orangeburg, South Carolina. In a company statement, the Chicago-based company said the new plant would create 1, 000 manufacturing and corporate jobs over the next…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (293+ words) Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows contact incidents were the leading cause of missed-work injuries in 2023 and 2024. That's according to BLS data analyzed by the Omega Law Group, which recently published a report on the top five such…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (426+ words) Progress in semiconductors used to be just about smaller transistors or faster chips, but once we got small enough, nanoscale, the doubling of Moore's Law began to slow down. Now, competitiveness in advanced electronics manufacturing as much depends on the…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (391+ words) "The target audience for this content includes manufacturing industry professionals, workers affected by factory closures and layoffs, and stakeholders interested in the economic impacts of manufacturing sector downturns." Factory fallout: manufacturing layoffs from Tyson Foods, Clearwater Paper, Nelson Global, and…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (329+ words) L3 Harris Technologies announced April 15 that it would spend $1. 265 billion to expand its Orange County, Virginia solid rocket motor production site. The expansion, dubbed Virginia Advanced Propulsion Facilities, will add 350 jobs through 2031 and more than double the existing site's 256, 000 square foot…...

1+ year, 1+ week ago  (343+ words) Below is an edited excerpt from the podcast: JK: I'm excited too about another challenging question or two coming my way." The plant manager comes in and says, "I think we ought to keep running. What do you guys think?...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (455+ words) Below is an excerpt from the podcast: AT: Joe as always, happy to have you back with me this month." JK: Yeah, excited to be here and perhaps help somebody with some of my experience and lessons learned the hard…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (249+ words) Below is an edited excerpt from the podcast: JK: Yeah, absolutely new grandchild. And my daughter and son in law have a house. So I'm the actually the free handyman, so I'm keeping busier. They live just 10 minutes away. So…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (855+ words) Many plants say they have a reliability program, but according to Kuhn, who has visited more than 40 plants in his career, he says upwards of 90% of them have some form of a fake reliability program, or a reliability program in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (371+ words) TSEA Energy, a manufacturer of energy infrastructure equipment, announced March 24 it would spend $25 million to build a new voltage regulator factory in Eden, North Carolina. The site will be the Brazil-based company's first U. S. plant. According to the company, the facility…...