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LISTEN: Honda Wheels Could Fall Off Due to an Italian...

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2025/11/13

Honda has issued a massive recall impacting hundreds of thousands of Civic models and the root cause is, you guessed it, a mixup with a fence in Italy. The automaker warned that 18-inch aluminum alloy wheels that were sold as accessories could detach from the vehicle due to a manufacturing error. As the company points out, having the wheels fly off your car can result in “a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”

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LISTEN: How This 19-Foot-Long Station Wagon Hit 180 MPH

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2025/11/12

A fascinating feat of automotive engineering is set to be auctioned later this month. The 'Beast' is a 19-foot long, two-door station wagon made in 1972 by British engineer John Dodd, and combines an aircraft-derived engine in a custom chassis. Station wagons are typically 15 feet to 16 feet long. According to Historics Auctioneers, which will set the Beast free to the highest bidder on November 29, 2025, the unique car traces back to engineer Paul Jameson. In the late 1960s, Jameson ma...

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1:59

LISTEN: Musk’s Tunneling Company Fined $500K for...

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2025/11/11

The Boring Company, a tunneling firm founded by Elon Musk, received a fine of about $500,000 for dumping wastewater at two sites across its Las Vegas project, Fortune reported. Musk’s company wants to build a network of tunnels beneath cities to decrease traffic congestion. The company’s website mentions that it has received approval for 68 miles of tunnel and 104 stations for its Vegas Loop. However, Clark County Water Reclamation District (CCWRD) reportedly caught the company dumping fluids...

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1:53

LISTEN: Novelis Reveals Plan to Restart Hot Mill...

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2025/11/10

Novelis announced in its latest quarterly report that it plans to restart a hot mill damaged by a fire at its Oswego, New York plant. The metal manufacturer expects operations to resume in December.

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LISTEN: Flooring Manufacturer to Close 3 Plants, Cut...

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2025/11/07

A McAdenville, North Carolina carpet factory will be closing its doors, with layoffs set to begin just two days after Christmas. Mannington Mills is a fifth generation family-owned business based in Salem, NJ that’s produced flooring products for 110 years. On its website, the company claims to have more than 3,500 associates and multiple locations globally. But those figures will be shifting measurably near the end of the year, according to a WARN notice filed with two states. One of those f...

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2:42

LISTEN: ATS Countersues Andersen After Accusations of...

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2025/11/06

Last month, Andersen Corporation, a leading manufacturer of windows and doors, sued automation company ATS Corporation, for allegedly failing to deliver equipment for a multi-million dollar factory project at its Iowa subsidiary, Eagle Window and Door Manufacturing, Inc. Andersen claims it poured millions into the facility to increase production of its high-end E-Series windows for the custom homebuilding market. Andersen claimed ATS missed deadlines, demanded millions in additional payments,...

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2:50

Toyota Debuts Autonomous Car Concept to Transport Kids

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2025/11/05

It looks like an escape pod.

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3:09

LISTEN: Anduril Opens Ghost Shark Factory as First...

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2025/11/03

The project went from prototype to fleet in less than three years.

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2:32

LISTEN: Sandvik Unveils “eNimon” to Highlight the...

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2025/10/30

Swedish engineering company Sandvik says the global transition to sustainability faces a major challenge: while technologies such as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar panels depend on “clean” minerals, the demand for materials like copper, nickel, and lithium is rapidly outpacing supply. To draw attention to the source of these essential resources, Sandvik has introduced the eNimon, or Nomine car. More than 90 percent of an average EV’s components originate from mined materials, but...

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Gen Z in Manufacturing: How Gen Z Decides Between...

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2025/10/28

Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing, a podcast where I interview young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the industry and what they are looking for from an employer. For this episode, I welcome Kyle Walter, a 24-year-old analyst at Deloitte. Walter graduated from Wichita State University, where he studied mechanical engineering and worked at Smart Factory by Deloitte @ Wichita, which is located on the university’s Innovation Campus.&nb...

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1:53

LISTEN: Amazon Believes Robotics Could ‘Flatten’ Its...

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2025/10/28

Automating most company operations could prevent more than 600,000 new hires.

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LISTEN: Rivian Reportedly Laying Off 600 Workers

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2025/10/27

Electric vehicle maker Rivian plans to lay off approximately 4% of its workforce, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report stated that the development would impact over 600 employees. However, the company has not provided further details. The news comes after a WSJ report in September that Rivian would cut about 1.5% of its workforce. A company spokesperson said that the previous layoffs impacted the commercial team as the automaker worked to “improve operational efficiency” for its ...

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LISTEN: World’s Largest Playable Gaming Screen...

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2025/10/24

Some marketing efforts are just simple PR stunts, while others are truly revolutionary feats of engineering. But when a gamer and a hip-hop artist take to the skies to play a video game on a giant screen suspended from a helicopter while flying in a different helicopter, why can't both be true?

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LISTEN: Hypersonic Space Plane Promises Delivery in...

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2025/10/23

Even a fairly straightforward pizza delivery still requires at least 30 minutes to bake the pie, throw it in a car and drive it to your door. But Inversion, an aerospace and defense technology company, is raising the stakes by promising to deliver cargo from space to just about anywhere on Earth within one hour.

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LISTEN: SpaceX 'Behind' on Moon Mission, NASA to...

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2025/10/22

The goal of Project Artemis has been characterized as a journey to the Moon “for scientific discovery, technology advancement, and to learn how to live and work on another world as we prepare for human missions to Mars.”

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2:41

LISTEN: Eye Implant Paired with AR Glasses and AI to...

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2025/10/21

Researchers from University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital recently announced the results of a trial for a new device that helps the blind not just see again, but read again. The Prima device is a novel wireless subretinal photovoltaic implant paired with specialized glasses that project near-infrared light to the implant, which acts like a miniature solar panel. The device is being developed by Science Corporation, which specializes in brain-computer interfaces and neural enginee...

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1:44

LISTEN: Battery Startup Launches Factory in Former...

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2025/10/16

The Austin American-Statesman reported that battery manufacturing startup Base Power moved into the newspaper’s former downtown Austin building. Founded in 2023, the startup makes residential batteries and plans to use the publication’s previous site temporarily.

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1:57

LISTEN: Former Ohio Paper Mill Repurposed to...

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2025/10/15

In the heart of Chillicothe, Ohio, a 175-year-old paper mill, long considered an unofficial symbol of the community, was forced to end production in August. Once a cornerstone of the town of 22,000, demand for the specialty paper it produced steadily declined, leading to its closure. First announced in April, the shutdown affected roughly 750 employees, who were notified months in advance. As Pixelle Specialty Solutions, the plant’s owner, prepared to relocate operations, workers were left fa...

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LISTEN: ABB to Sell Robotics Divison for $5.4 Billion

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2025/10/14

An engineering brand synonymous with bots will divest its robotics division. ABB has announced that it is selling this business to SoftBank – a Japanese financial holding company with a heavy emphasis in technology. SoftBank owns significant stakes in major companies like Nvidia and T-Mobile, and recent reports have suggested that the firm is carving out a strategic growth plan specific to AI. And that’s likely where ABB comes in.

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LISTEN: Ford Could Lose Up to $1 Billion as Plant...

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2025/10/13

The Ford F-150 has been a top-selling pickup truck in America for many years running, but a recent disaster at the plant of one of the automaker’s key suppliers speaks to the precarious nature of even the most valuable supply chains. On September 16th, a fire took place at the Oswego, New York factory of metal manufacturer Novelis – an event that reportedly leveled the plant’s hot mill, which is the facility’s primary aluminum sheet production area.

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