Manufacturing

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday will convene the first meeting of his supply chain resilience council, using the event to announce 30 actions to improve access to medicine and needed economic data and other programs tied to the production... Read More

MILWAUKEE (AP) — In a show of preemptive counter-programming, President Joe Biden on Tuesday traveled to Wisconsin to highlight his economic policies in a state critical to his reelection fortunes, just a week before Republicans descend on Milwaukee for the party’s first presidential debate. His arrival... Read More

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Bringing back factory jobs is one of the most popular of White House promises — no matter who happens to be the president. Donald Trump said he'd do it with tariffs on imports. Barack Obama said... Read More

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Joe Biden is visiting the midlands region of South Carolina on Thursday to celebrate the growth in manufacturing in the state since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. After arriving at the metropolitan airport... Read More

WASHINGTON — Two new agreements reached between the American Farm Bureau Federation and agricultural equipment manufacturers represent a dramatic expansion of farmers’ and ranchers’ right to repair their own farm equipment. The memoranda of understanding with manufacturers AGCO and Kubota,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday licensed the first-ever vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a highly contagious virus that is a common cause of lower respiratory tract disease in older adults. The vaccine, Arexvy, was... Read More

WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia’s nearly $37 billion purchase of new Boeing passenger jets is yet another sign of the United States' rebirth as a global manufacturing leader, Biden administration officials declared Tuesday. Their enthusiastic assessment came just moments after Boeing... Read More

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Stellantis North America plans to invest $155 million in three Kokomo, Indiana, manufacturing plants that will be dedicated to the production of new drive modules for electric vehicles. Stellantis, whose parent company is headquartered in Amsterdam,... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shrugging off rampant inflation and rising interest rates, the U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly strong 3.2% annual pace from July through September, the government reported Thursday in a healthy upgrade from its earlier estimate of third-quarter... Read More

TOKYO — Japanese Pharma firm Takeda has agreed to pay $4 billion in cash for a single drug invented by Nimbus Therapeutics, a Boston, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company. The drug Takeda is buying (NDI-034858) blocks selective allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 (also... Read More

WASHINGTON — The United States will not support extending a Dec. 17 deadline for waiving intellectual property protection for COVID-19 tests and treatments, and instead is asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to first investigate market dynamics such as pricing,... Read More

President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to visit the building site for a new computer chip plant in Arizona, using it as a chance to emphasize how his policies are fostering job growth in what could be a challenge to... Read More

PARIS — As the world continues to transition toward net-zero emissions, the rising demand for renewable energy is expected to continue to increase demand for critical minerals.  To ensure they continue to have a safe, secure and sustainable supply, a... Read More

ATLANTA — A clean-tech startup headquartered in Norway announced Friday that it has selected Coweta County, Georgia, just southwest of Atlanta, to be the site of its new electric vehicle battery factory. FREYR Battery said it plans to invest about... Read More

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — BMW Group, long a driver of economic development in South Carolina, has announced it is investing $1.7 billion to dramatically expand its capability to produce electric vehicles in the state. About $1 billion of the investment will... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy last week awarded $2.8 billion to 20 companies to build and expand commercial-scale facilities in 12 states to extract and process lithium, graphite and other battery materials, manufacture components, and demonstrate new approaches, including manufacturing... Read More

WASHINGTON — If rechargeable batteries leading the switch away from gasoline-powered vehicles are impressive, electrical industry executives told a Senate panel Thursday they haven’t seen anything yet. They say they are developing new technologies that will generate more electricity than... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to put the spotlight on a rare bipartisan down payment on U.S. manufacturing when he visits Ohio on Friday for the groundbreaking of a new Intel computer chip facility. Biden heads to suburban Columbus to... Read More

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Automotive giant Nissan, working in collaboration with Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-grid services provider, has approved the first ever bi-directional charger for use with the Nissan LEAF in the U.S. Bi-directional charging technology means not only charging the... Read More

ANDERSON, S.C. — Robert Bosch, the German engineering giant, is investing $200 million in an existing plant in South Carolina to transform it into the company’s first North American site producing hydrogen-powered fuel stacks for future electric vehicles. The fuel... Read More

LIBERTY, N.C. — Toyota is investing an additional $2.5 billion in its newest North American facility to increase its capacity to produce batteries for hybrid electric and battery electric vehicles. The announcement on Wednesday triples the company’s planned investment in... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden Tuesday signed the long-awaited CHIPS bill investing $280 billion in tech manufacturing. The bill seeks to subsidize the domestic production of semiconductor chips — the electronic circuit boards found in nearly every tech product from... Read More

CLEVELAND (AP) — In a world increasingly troubled by the persistent harm that plastic — manufactured in petrochemical plants — has had on the environment, companies are investing billions of dollars to ramp up production of plastics made from natural,... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will sign the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 into law next Tuesday in a Rose Garden ceremony, the White House has announced. Supporters of H.R. 4346 touted the legislation as a vehicle for lowering... Read More

WASHINGTON — Chey Tae-won, chairman and principal owner of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, SK Group, is set to announce $22 billion in new investments in U.S. manufacturing during a virtual meeting with President Joe Biden later today. The new investments... Read More

WASHINGTON — A shortage of one essential material could curtail America’s transition to new sources of clean energy according to a new report from S&P Global. The world’s copper supply is unlikely to be able to meet demand for all... Read More

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Ohio’s Republican governor is decrying a Biden administration decision to suspend tariffs on solar panels from Southeast Asia, calling the move a threat to American manufacturers, including First Solar, which is currently building its third manufacturing plant... Read More

DEERFIELD, Ill. – Caterpillar Inc., one of the world’s most recognizable manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, has begun a three-year project to demonstrate the viability of a hydrogen-fueled combined heat and power system. Though the project, which is being... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday directed his administration to “work urgently” to respond to the major baby formula shortage that has forced families across the United States to rely on others with leftover supplies to swap or sell... Read More

HOLLAND, Mich. — A city perhaps best known today for being the home of the much-photographed Big Red Lighthouse that stands between the channel linking Lake Macatawa to Lake Michigan, will soon be home to the world’s first mass-scale sodium-ion... Read More