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LISTEN: Over 600 Memphis FedEx Workers Laid Off As...

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2025/08/29

Although FedEx confirmed the layoffs are not related to the company’s ‘Network 2.0’ plan for streamlining its package network, this is the company’s second layoff this year. The state’s labor department filed notice that 217 employees were previously laid off in Middle Tennessee in March.

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Gen Z in Manufacturing: The Best Age to Make First...

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2025/08/27

For this episode, I welcome Hannah Dannecker, a 26-year-old managing partner at Better Together Group, a collection of companies that focus on supplying support and tools to staffing companies. Additionally, Dannecker serves as a board member for the Women’s Trucking Federation of Canada.

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1:18

LISTEN: AirBorn Closing Facility as Contract...

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2025/08/27

AirBorn, a designer and manufacturer of interconnect solutions for industrial, defense, aerospace and medical applications, announced plans to close its facility in Taunton, Massachusetts. The company filed its WARN report on August 20, which stated that the closure would affect 86 workers beginning at the end of 2025 and continuing through 2026.

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1:30

Electronics Giant to Build ‘AI Supercomputer’...

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2025/08/26

Wistron’s project is part of a $500 billion AI manufacturing effort by Nvidia.

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3:08

LISTEN: Toto Expands U.S. Toilet Production, Leans...

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2025/08/25

This morning, Toto USA opened a $224 million manufacturing facility in Morrow, Georgia, reshoring production of high-end, one-piece toilets from the Toto Group's plants in Asia. Toto USA is the Japanese manufacturer's Americas division based in Morrow, Georgia. The company, one of the largest plumbing manufacturers in the world that does more than $5.34 billion in annual sales, says it made the move to increase U.S. luxury one-piece toilet production capacity by 150% to meet rising demand.

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2:22

LISTEN: Harvard Team’s Wearable Robot Helps Stroke,...

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2025/08/22

Bioengineers at Harvard have created a soft, wearable robot that looks more like a smart jacket, designed to help stroke patients and individuals with neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS, regain a bit of normalcy. The team has been working on the technology for years, and the most recent version deploys sensors, balloons, machine learning and a physics-based model to learn each patient's unique movements to help them accomplish daily activities, such as eating, drinking or grooming. The d...

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1:59

LISTEN: Navy Drones Collide as Test Flounders

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2025/08/21

The future of warfare is autonomous. To compete with China, particularly in the Taiwan Straight, the U.S. Department of Defense has been ramping up development of autonomous boats, but, according to an exclusive Reuters report, things could be better. The U.S. Navy recently conducted a test of autonomous drone boats off the California coast—it was meant to promote the Pentagon's prowess. During the test, one of the vessels stalled. As the team worked to fix a software bug, anothe...

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2:36

LISTEN: GM's Futuristic Corvette Opens Like a Fighter...

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2025/08/20

On Friday, GM unveiled a pair of futuristic Corvette concepts, the CX and the CX.R Vision Gran Turismo, and they have a canopy that opens like a fighter jet.

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1:47

LISTEN: Proposal Could Turn Historic Golf Course into...

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2025/08/19

A nearly century-old golf course in western Michigan could be turned into an industrial, commercial and residential complex under a proposal from its potential new owner. Residents living near Riverside Golf Club & Banquet Center in Battle Creek were invited to an informational meeting Wednesday about the project, WWMT-TV reports. Interstate Capital Investments, which has a tentative agreement in place to buy the course after some two years on the market, would dedicate about half of the ...

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3:06

LISTEN: Details of T1's Solar Vision Emerge After...

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2025/08/18

T1 Energy and Corning today announced a new partnership to boost the U.S. solar supply chain. T1 will source hyper-pure polysilicon and solar wafers made by Corning at its plant in Michigan. Starting later next year, Corning wafers will be delivered to T1's G2_Austin solar cell facility, which is currently under development. The cells will then be used to make solar modules at T1's operational G1_Dallas site. T1's G2_Austin 5 GW Solar Cell Facility is an $850 million project. According to the...

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LISTEN: Aluminum Tariffs May Kill One of the Best...

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2025/08/15

The Trump Administration’s moving-target import tariffs have had significant impacts on the U.S. supply chain and manufacturing industry. While the full impact is still unfolding, it’s beginning to look like the trade deal tactics could do the unthinkable: raise the price of AriZona Iced Tea. AriZona Iced Tea has been a shining beacon in the cooler sections of gas stations and grocery stores across the country for decades. Since 1997, the company has sold its tallboys for 99 cents, a price po...

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LISTEN: A Swarm of Jellyfish Took Down an Entire...

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2025/08/14

A “massive and unpredictable” swarm of jellyfish has caused one of the largest nuclear power plants in France to completely shut down. According to the Guardian, the jellyfish swam into water intake systems at the Gravelines facility in Northern France. The resulting clog in the filters caused four of the plant's six pumping stations to cease operation. The other two were already shut down for maintenance, leaving the systems needed to cool the reactors completely offline.

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LISTEN: Sana Biotech Bails on Factory in Old AT&T...

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2025/08/13

Last August, Sana Biotechnology opened a new 80,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in an old AT&T call center in Bothell, Washington. The Seattle-based startup, which manufactures engineered cells used as medicines for cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune disease patients, had been working on the project for more than a year. The facility was expected to create hundreds of new jobs and bring manufacturing in-house.

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1:53

LISTEN: The U.S. Military Wants to Blow Up Some...

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2025/08/12

Tesla’s Cybertruck has sparked some interesting debates around aesthetics and utility versus novelty, but the U.S. military just wants a few of them to blow up. The Air Force Test Center submitted a procurement request for 33 towable target vehicles to be used as targets for live missile fire testing. The request mostly focuses on sedans of various colors, trucks, SUVs and “Bongos,” which appears to be the term they used for a Japanese Kei truck. But the list mentions the Cybertruck specifica...

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1:37

NHL Team in Trademark Dispute with Bag Manufacturer

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2025/08/11

The NHL’s newest team announced a lawsuit against a bag manufacturer over a trademark dispute. The controversy involves the Utah Mammoth hockey team and a hockey equipment bag maker named Mammoth Hockey, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

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LISTEN: Fire-Damaged LA Community Homes Rebuilt by...

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2025/08/08

Cosmic Building, a construction technology company, uses AI-driven end-to-end software to run mobile robotic microfactories. At the heart of its newest microfactory in Pacific Palisades are ABB’s IRB 6710 robots and RobotStudio digital twin software. Both of which are integrated into Cosmic’s Workstation Cell and AI-driven Building Information Model (BIM). #ai #california #wildfire #losangeles #robot #fire

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1:58

LISTEN: Major Carrier Abruptly Bans Electric Vehicle...

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2025/08/07

When it comes to global logistics, it seems no news is good news. If a transoceanic journey of goods goes without a hitch, you never hear about it. But when things go wrong, they can go very wrong – and we’ve seen that play out in several dramatic fires in the past few years that have resulted in high profile tales of doomed cargo ships. Most recently, an incident involving the cargo carrier Morning Midas led to millions in losses after a fire broke out and the ship sank off the coast of Alas...

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LISTEN: Tesla's Brand Loyalty Falls Dramatically

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2025/08/05

Tesla's brand loyalty has suffered some notable setbacks. According to an exclusive Reutersreport, Tesla did more repeat business with U.S. autobuyers than any other major car brand. But then, CEO Elon Musk backed Donald Trump’s reelection efforts and customer loyalty suffered as a result. S&P Global Mobility reports that Tesla customer loyalty reached an all-time high in June 2024, when 73% of households that already owned a Tesla and were in the market for a new car purchased another Te...

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LISTEN: Glass Plant Shuts Down Production, Cuts...

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2025/08/04

The Oregon plant dates back more than 70 years.

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LISTEN: Anglers Debut Desktop Injection Molding...

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2025/07/31

About a week ago, a team of engineers and fishing enthusiasts debuted a new product on Kickstarter with modest expectations. It's understandable; a little more than 40% of projects launched on the crowdfunding platform reach their funding goals, and about 15% fail to raise a single dollar.

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