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LISTEN: Electric Bus Co. Suspends Production at Brand New Plant
It was just July of last year when Illinois governor JB Pritzker cut the ribbon at the Lion Electric EV bus plant in Joliet.At the time, the company touted plans to produce 20,000 electric buses annually – claims that hit noticeable snag...
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LISTEN: Famed Workwear Maker Moving from Texas to California
A longtime manufacturer of workwear and other apparel is relocating its headquarters from Texas to California — reversing a highly publicized trend of companies moving in the opposite direction in recent years.The parent company of Dicki...
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LISTEN: Activists Rage After Coca-Cola Drastically Changes Plastic Pledge
In 2023, Coca-Cola was named the top plastic polluter in the world by environmental organization Break Free From Plastic.Unfortunately for Coke, this distinction wasn’t new; they’d earned the label for six years straight – one the group ...
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LISTEN: Cargill to Cut 8,000 Jobs
Cargill has revealed that it plans to cut 5% of its global workforce – most of which will take place in the coming year. It’s a move that will result in the elimination of some 8,000 jobs.
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LISTEN: Emergency Vehicle Lights Are Giving Driverless Cars 'Digital Seizures'
While driverless systems are often capable of reacting to scenarios more safely than a human driver would, sometimes the opposite is true – as evidenced by crashes over the years where a vehicle in autonomous mode has missed a seemingl...
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LISTEN: Explosion at General Motors Site Causes Damage to Homes
The Detroit Free Press reported that a tank used for storing an oil and brine solution exploded at General Moto...
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LISTEN: Caribbean Researchers Test-Drive a Seaweed-Powered Car
Although there appear to be few easy answers to the problem, researchers from the University of the West Indies believe one possible solution could be using sargassum to power cars.
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LISTEN: Gen Z in Manufacturing: Apprenticeships Need to Do More Than Just Pay for School
Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing, a podcast that asks young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the industry a...
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LISTEN: FDA Accuses Toothpaste Maker of Bacteria-Tainted Water Supply, Mold
Tom’s of Maine is a personal care brand well known for its use of natural ingredients, though a recent FDA report has identified some very undesirable contents they say are in th...
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LISTEN: Nation’s Frozen Potato Producers Accused of Fixing Prices
The four companies that produce the overwhelming majority of the U.S.’s frozen potato products conspired to fix prices in recent years, according to a series of newly filed lawsuits.Five antitrust suits,
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LISTEN: Ford to Cut Bronco Production
In January, Ford announced that it would be cutting back on production of its EV pickup, the F-150 Lightning. But the automaker had a plan to make up some ground: a large group of workers from the Lightning plant would move to plants producing ...
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LISTEN: Thieves Make Off With $1 Million in Sammy Hagar & Guy Fieri's Tequila in Wild Heis
About two weeks ago, thieves targeted a major Santo Spirits shipment as it crossed the border into the United States. The tequila company is co-owned by celebrity chef Guy Fieri and musician Sammy Hagar.First reported by
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LISTEN: Hackers Steal MLB Player's Lamborghini By Rerouting Delivery
Last month, Colorado Rockies third baseman Kris Bryant awaited the imminent delivery of a $300,000 Lamborghini Huracan to his home in Las Vegas … but it never came.Bryant, who was having the vehicle transported for the offseason
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LISTEN: AI Taught to Hear Battery Fires Before They Start
NIST reported that these fires can produce a jet of flame that reaches up to 2,012° Fahrenheit, nearly the heat of a blowtorch, in approximately one second. This hazard differs from traditional residential fires that start more slowly, which al...
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LISTEN: Commercial Jet Flies Nearly 300 Hours with Tool Stuck in its Engine
Chalk this one up to either dumb luck or stupid-mistake resistance design, but a commercial jet just managed to fly the equivalent of almost two weeks with a tool stuck in one of its engines.A newly published report from the Australian T...
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LISTEN: Stanley Black and Decker Expects $200M Hit from Tariff Hikes
Stanley Black & Decker indicated in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that proposed increases in tariffs under the forthcoming Trump administration could affect its pre-tax operating income by some $200 million on an...
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LISTEN: Calif. Highway Patrol Tests Lucid EV
One state’s highway patrol is perhaps the most famous nationwide – and that’s California’s, a unit that inspired the 1970’s cop drama CHiPS.And anyone who’s viewed it knows that CHiPS was associated with motorcycles – specifically classi...
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LISTEN: Costco Butter Recalled for Forgetting to Mention it Contains Milk
The FDA announced a recall for about 79,200 pounds of Costco butter. The reason: the product’s packaging failed to mention that it contains milk. The re...
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LISTEN: Natilus Plane Concept Could Compete with Popular Boeing 737, Airbus A320 Aircraft
Based in San Diego, Natilus is an aerospace startup developing a portfolio of efficient blended-wing-body aircraft that could transport passengers and cargo more sustainably. According to the company, compared to the traditional tu...
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LISTEN: Spirit AeroSystems' Future Faces 'Substantial Doubt'
On Monday, Boeing's union machinists voted to accept the company's contract offer and end a strike that stretched for more than seven weeks. As the troubled plane maker gets back to busi...
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LISTEN: Molson Coors Shutting Down 157-Year-Old Wisconsin Brewery
In a statement obtained by WTMJ, Molson Coors Chief Supply Chain Officer Brian Erhardt said the decision to shutte...
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LISTEN: This Wallet Would Never Fit In Your Pocket
Digital payment solutions have become so commonplace that some consumers now regularly leave the house without the one key item that was once indispensable – a wallet.And while it’s convenient to leverage apps like Apple Pay and flash yo...
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LISTEN: Butcher Harvests Invasive Raccoons to Make Meatballs
Kade is a small German village about an hour west of Berlin. The area reportedly has quite the pest problem, but rather than tossing them in the trash, one entrepreneur found a more sustainable solution: eat'em. Raccoons were brough...
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LISTEN: 1.3 Million Chickens Killed After Poultry Processor Goes Belly Up
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) announced that it received permission from a court to kill approximately 1.3 million broiler chick...
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LISTEN: EV Maker Exec Calls In-Car Buttons a 'Bug, Not a Feature'
Many automakers have been shifting toward touchscreens embedded in their vehicles’ dashboards and away from dedicated physical buttons. While it may enable more potential features, it could also make driving less safe and possibly more annoying...
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