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LISTEN: Fancy Luxury Seats Are Holding Up Airplane Deliveries
CNBC says that increasingly luxurious first-class seats are holding up airplane deliveries.The “big 2” in commercial airliners held earnings ca...
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LISTEN: Honda Moving Civic Production to Indiana Due to Tariffs
Honda has scrapped production plans for its Civic Hybrid in Mexico, shifting production to an Indiana facility.Japan’s second-largest automaker makes the shift with tariffs and trade wars in mind—President Donald Trump has imposed 25% ta...
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LISTEN: Ford Mustangs Recalled to Fix Issue Caused by Previous Recall
The automaker just recalled vehicles that were recalled last year to fix a problem that occurred during the previous recall.
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LISTEN: Boeing Closes First Shadow Factory
One down, one to go. A little more than two weeks ago, reports surfaced regarding Boeing’s refocused effort on closing the plane maker’s shadow factories, sites where some of the company’s top ...
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Volvo Buyers Claim New Vehicles Came with Counterfeit Parts
Volvo buyers in China got an unwelcome surprise recently when they discovered some irregularities in a standard component.According to Chinese media outlet Sohu, as reported ...
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Micro-Factories Could Build a New Home Every 12 Hours
ABB Robotics recently partnered with UK construction technology company Automated Architecture (AUAR) to build ConstrucThor, a new research facility in Belgium, to showcase the future of sustainable construction.
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Fatal Fire Traced to Incorrect Valve
On January 8, 2024, a fire broke out in the engine room aboard the 598-foot-long Stride cargo vessel while it was refueling at the Barbours Cut Marine Terminal in La Porte, Texas, about 25 miles east of Houston. Crewmembers cut all ventilation...
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LISTEN: Ford Will Pay You If Your F-150 Gets Stolen
While no vehicle is entirely theft-proof, Ford is so confident in its ability to prevent your F-150 from being stolen that it’s willing to put its money where its mouth is.
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LISTEN: Industrial Gas Giant’s Clean Hydrogen Projects in Jeopardy
The company was slated to receive $7 billion in funding to help develop six U.S. hydrogen hubs.
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LISTEN: Gen Z in Manufacturing: Ditch Authority and Lead With Empathy
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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RBW Opening U.S. Factory to Make Handmade Sports Cars Based on Iconic British Designs
RBW EV is a UK-based manufacturer of hand-crafted electric sports cars. It's a nearly eight-year-old family business, and family is important to founder Peter Swain. For example, the company's name, RBW, actually represents the first letter of ...
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LISTEN: Startup Co-Founder Pledges $15M for Prefabricated Homes to Help LA Wildfire Victims
Bloomberg reported that the co-founder of modular home manufacturer Samara plans to donate $15 million to an initi...
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LISTEN: Will Ram Resurrect the Hood Ornament?
Motor Authority has pointed out a Stellantis patent published in January by the United States Patent and Trademark Office that takes the form of th...
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LISTEN: Boeing Aims to Shut Down ‘Shadow Factories’
Boeing admitted that its production cannot keep up with its aircraft sales. However, the aircraft manufacturer aims to restore jet production to the pre-crisis levels it achieved before deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019 and last year’s midflight ...
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LISTEN: 100,000 Recalled Toyota Trucks Have a Mud Problem
Toyota has issued a fairly substantial recall for its Tacoma pickup truck and the problem is a particularly dirty one.According to the recall filed with the NHTSA, the affected 4-wheel drive vehicles are equipped with 16-inch brake syste...
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LISTEN: Chevron to Cut 15-20% of Its Workforce
The headlines these days are awash with cost-cutting news, and it appears that one big name in oil & gas is jumping head-first into slashing its overhead.Chevron
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LISTEN: Motor Bike Maker Unsheathes Limited-Edition Sword
Stark Future, a Spanish motor vehicle manufacturer with Swedish roots, launched in 2020, began sales and production in 2023 and repor...
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LISTEN: Boeing Expects to Lay Off 400 Workers from Moon Project
Is the Artemis program doomed?When the first Trump administration announced a pledge to reestablish America’s human presence on the Moon, the goal was to create a permanent base on the lunar surface, which could be used to help ...
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LISTEN: Air Force ‘Frankensteins’ 2 Wrecked F-35s Into a Working Aircraft
More than a year ago, the U.S. Air Force took on the unique task of taking two wrecked aircraft and Frankensteining them together into one operational F-35A Lightning II. Now, after a whole lot of weird science, it’s alive!In late 2023, ...
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LISTEN: Adhesives Manufacturer to Ax 72 Facilities in Cost-Cutting Blitz
Minnesota-based H.B. Fuller Company provides adhesives, sealants and specialty chemicals to customers in a wide range of industries – everything from medical and hygiene products to transportation, energy and construction. Despite t...
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LISTEN: Small, 3D-Printed Piece Could Save Air Force Millions in Fuel Costs
Sometimes the simplest solutions produce the most significant results. And the U.S. Air Force is close to implementing a very basic feature that could end up saving millions.The C-17 Globemaster III is a flexible aircraft used to carry t...
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LISTEN: As Tariffs Loom, Cosmetics Giant Eyes 7,000 Job Cuts
One of the world’s largest cosmetics firms is in trouble.In the Fall of 2024, Estee Lauder – parent company to major brands like Clinique and MAC lipstick – announced a planned turnaround after declining sales led the company to withdraw...
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LISTEN: South Carolina Law Would Prevent Purchases from In-State Auto Plant
A resurrected, electrified automotive brand is preparing to begin selling the SUVs made at its forthcoming South Carolina factory in two years’ time.But barring a change in state law, residents of the Palmetto State won’t be among it...
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