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2:40

Micro-Factories Could Build a New Home Every 12 Hours

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2025/02/28

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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2:53

Fatal Fire Traced to Incorrect Valve

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2025/02/27

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 to the engine room to extinguish the fire, but not before two crewmembers, a chief engineer and a third engineer, lost their lives. Another worker was seriously injured in the incident as well. The vessel was declared a total loss valued at $12 million...

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1:53

LISTEN: Ford Will Pay You If Your F-150 Gets Stolen

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2025/02/26

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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19:30

LISTEN: Gen Z in Manufacturing: Ditch Authority and...

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2025/02/25

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 and what they are looking for from an employer. This episode welcomes Emily Molstad, a 27-year-old CEO and co-founder at VALIS Insights, a startup and member of Manufacturing USA Institute REMADE that develops AI-powered software designed to close the loop on a circular economy for metal fabrication. Molstad co-founded VALIS af...

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1:31

LISTEN: Industrial Gas Giant’s Clean Hydrogen...

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2025/02/25

The company was slated to receive $7 billion in funding to help develop six U.S. hydrogen hubs.

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3:42

RBW Opening U.S. Factory to Make Handmade Sports Cars...

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2025/02/24

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 each name of Swain's children, Rose, Becky and Wesley. The EV, well, you know what that means. For years, RBW has hand built its GT and Roadster models overseas, including a little more than a year in its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in...

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1:37

LISTEN: Startup Co-Founder Pledges $15M for...

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2025/02/21

Bloomberg reported that the co-founder of modular home manufacturer Samara plans to donate $15 million to an initiative that aims to provide prefabricated homes to victims of the wildfires that struck Los Angeles. The donation will come from Joe Gebbia [Jebbia], who also co-founded Airbnb and serves as a board member of Tesla

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2:09

LISTEN: Will Ram Resurrect the Hood Ornament?

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2025/02/20

Motor Authority has pointed out a Stellantis patent published in January by the United States Patent and Trademark Office that takes the form of the iconic Ram’s head hood ornament, originally featured on the Dodge brand trucks, though notably modernized.

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1:54

LISTEN: Boeing Aims to Shut Down ‘Shadow Factories’

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2025/02/18

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 door plug detachment. To accomplish this, the Wall Street Journal reported that Boeing wants to empty the aircraft stored in its shadow factories. The company defines a shadow factory as a production line where mechanics and engineers fix, maintain, and...

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2:20

LISTEN: 100,000 Recalled Toyota Trucks Have a Mud...

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2025/02/17

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 systems with hoses that transfer brake fluid under hydraulic pressure to the calipers for braking. The positioning of the components, paired with 17-inch wheels, means that mud and dirt can build up on the interior of the wheels and possibly come into contact with...

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1:56

LISTEN: Chevron to Cut 15-20% of Its Workforce

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2025/02/14

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 revealed Wednesday that it plans to cut a significant number of jobs in order to shore up as much as $3 billion in cost savings. The cuts are projected to include between 15% and 20% of Chevron’s global workforce. They will reportedly start now and will conclude before the end of next year.

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1:46

LISTEN: Motor Bike Maker Unsheathes Limited-Edition...

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2025/02/13

Stark Future, a Spanish motor vehicle manufacturer with Swedish roots, launched in 2020, began sales and production in 2023 and reported in 2024 that it expected to eventually reach an annual revenue of more than $93 million. However, Stark’s latest development did not involve the electric Stark Varg, the company’s flagship electric motocross bike. Instead, Stark revealed the Klinga Sabre, a sword manufactured with 3D-printed titanium. Brand Communications Director Benjamin Cobb told IEN that...

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2:21

LISTEN: Boeing Expects to Lay Off 400 Workers from...

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2025/02/12

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 facilitate missions to Mars. In 2019, the cost estimate for the program – dubbed Project Artemis – was suggested by NASA to be between $20 and $30 billion. And while that’s a big number, it actually pales in comparison to the revised figure that came two years later w...

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LISTEN: Air Force ‘Frankensteins’ 2 Wrecked F-35s...

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2025/02/11

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, the F-35 Joint Program Office assembled a “dream team” consisting of the 388th Fighter Wing, the Ogden Air Logistics Complex and Lockheed Martin. The mission: rebuild an AF-211 that lost its nose cone in 2021 using the front end of an F-35 that suffered a sev...

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2:24

LISTEN: Adhesives Manufacturer to Ax 72 Facilities in...

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2025/02/10

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 the diversity of its end markets, H.B. Fuller’s leaders recently expressed disappointment in its Q4 earnings statement, pointing to sluggish customer behavior, pricing volatility, high material costs and tight margins. CEO Celeste Mastin said the company must ...

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1:44

LISTEN: Small, 3D-Printed Piece Could Save Air Force...

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2025/02/07

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 troops and all types of cargo from point A to point B. It’s also a massive plane and not particularly fuel efficient. But a small 3D-printed device could help with that. The Air Force Operational Energy and Air Mobility Command said it’s in the final phase of ...

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2:02

LISTEN: As Tariffs Loom, Cosmetics Giant Eyes 7,000...

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2025/02/06

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 its forecasts and reduce its dividend. At the time, the company – which employs around 62,000 – said it would cut 3,000 jobs to reduce millions in costs.

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LISTEN: 1 in 5 Vehicles on U.S. Roads Have Unfixed...

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2025/02/04

According to AutoInsurance.com, carmakers issued an average of 21 recalls each in 2024. And while auto manufacturers are on the hook for these repair costs – representing a multi-million-dollar hit to their bottom line – vehicle buyers play a role, too: they must actually bring their vehicles in to have the service performed. It’s been well documented that many of them don’t, and a recent study by Carfax illustrates just how many that is.

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1:49

LISTEN: South Carolina Law Would Prevent Purchases...

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2025/02/04

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 its customers — at least directly. CarScoops noted recently that South Carolina is one of the some 20 states that contin ue to restrict direct-to-consumer vehicle sales. Those policies, which require cars to be sold by dealerships, date back to mid-century legisl...

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LISTEN: Candy Maker Uses AI to Elevate Romance

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2025/01/30

"This year, Spangler shifted away from the no-label lifestyle with its "Commitment Hearts," which feature artificial intelligence scanning technology that lets consumers express their desire for cohabitation, symbolic headstones and even matrimony.The new candies read "MOVE IN?", "MARRY ME" and "4EVER EVER?". After buying these new sweethearts, customers can visit sweetheartcandies.com, where they will find a button that says "Commit to your Sweetheart." Clicking the link brings up a pa...

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