All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 15 2020 // Building valuation can be confusing at best.If you go to a real estate website like Zillow, it’ll give you an estimated market value for a building. It’s doubtful that anyone really knows how they come up with...
Jan 13 2020 // An expert panel formed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has endorsed asbestos testing standards for cosmetics that reject long-held industry positions and reflect those of public health authorities and experts for...
Jan 6 2020 // Hundreds of Delta Air Lines employees have filed a pair of class action lawsuits against Wisconsin-based clothing manufacturer Lands’ End, claiming that uniforms they are required to wear are causing serious medical...
Dec 23 2019 // Long gone are the days of the leather shell and single-bar face mask.Today’s football helmets are technological marvels, using cutting edge materials and design elements to make the headgear the safest it’s...
Dec 16 2019 // A fire at a plastics factory near Bangladesh’s capital has killed at least 13 people and injured 21 others, police said Thursday.The fire occurred Wednesday at the Prime Plastic Industries factory in Keraniganj, said...
Dec 10 2019 // A worker at Sub-Zero in Fitchburg died after becoming trapped in machinery, police said.Emergency crews were called to the company Friday night about someone who was not breathing and had no pulse, Fitchburg police Sgt....
Dec 9 2019 // A federal judge has approved a historic settlement agreement between Taiwan-based plastics manufacturer Formosa and an environmental activist represented by indigent legal services nonprofit Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.TRLA...
Dec 8 2019 // At least 43 people died in a blaze in New Delhi early Sunday morning, authorities said.The fire broke out in a factory operating in a residential area, Anil Mittal, a spokesman for the Delhi police said. The state...
Dec 3 2019 // By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down.It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who...
Dec 3 2019 // At an invitation-only gathering late last year, U.S. regulators and their guests huddled at a hotel near Washington, D.C., to discuss the best way to detect cancer-causing asbestos in talc powders and cosmetics.The...
Nov 21 2019 // Artificial intelligence is coming for America’s high-paid professions as it creates winners and losers across the labor market like never before.White-collar jobs and better-educated occupations along with production...
Nov 15 2019 // Zurich Insurance has rolled out new, industry-specific endorsements to its cyber insurance policy designed to expand coverages provided to the manufacturing industry.The endorsements were created in response to the growing...
Nov 1 2019 // Portland State University chemistry professor David Peyton had never been attacked with such intensity.Peyton and a group of other chemists discovered almost five years ago that e-cigarettes could sometimes produce more...
Oct 31 2019 // The rapid rise of crash-avoidance technology has set carmakers and repair shops on course for a collision that could determine who controls the $800 billion auto aftermarket in the digital age.Given the unprecedented...
Oct 29 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Strahle + Hess USA Inc. for exposing employees to amputation hazards at the company’s Auburn, Alabama, facility. The...
Oct 15 2019 // Electronic cigarettes and vaping have been heralded by many as a safer alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes. A recent outbreak of illnesses allegedly related to vaping, however, has ignited public hysteria and...
Oct 9 2019 // A Missouri-based food flavoring manufacturer is facing $223,525 in penalties after being cited by federal officials for workplace safety violations following the death of a worker at the company’s facility.The U.S....
Oct 8 2019 // A Vermont town has filed suit seeking damages against opioid manufacturers and related companies.The town of Bennington is being represented by attorneys from two firms that have been involved in similar suits filed in...
Oct 7 2019 // The medical device industry is an expanding market with significant growth forecasted over the next decade. According to KPMG data, global predictions reveal the life sciences sector will grow by more than 5% per year,...
Oct 2 2019 // U.S. officials say Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) and ManpowerGroup US Inc. (Manpower) violated federal law when they fired a female employee who complained about sexual harassment at a JCI manufacturing facility in Norman,...