All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 27 2013 // Gap Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are among U.S. retailers finalizing an agreement to establish a $50 million, five-year fund to improve safety conditions in Bangladesh garment factories, the Wall Street Journal reported,...
Jun 27 2013 // Rolls-Royce Plc repeatedly failed to identify a defect that caused one of its engines to explode on a Qantas Airways Ltd aircraft carrying more than 400 people over Indonesia three years ago, an Australian safety regulator...
Jun 25 2013 // A report from Marsh on the recent Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people cites the “serious risks that labor conditions can pose not only to workers, but also to...
Jun 17 2013 // The solar construction industry has been extremely hot in recent years. Perhaps, too hot.The sector’s rapid growth has led to an oversupply of solar panels, which has turned up the heat on manufacturers to lower...
Jun 5 2013 // SullivanCurtisMonroe (SCM) has formed a partnership with the California Manufacturers & Technology Association (CMTA) to launch the Environmental Risk Management (ERM) program. The ERM Program helps CMTA members manage...
May 29 2013 // A lawsuit in Mississippi says a man was seriously injured after he was attacked by a swarm of yellow jackets, jumped off his riding lawnmower and was run over by the machine.Everardo Garfias claims a cut-off switch should...
May 21 2013 // The High Court in Bangladesh’s capital has asked authorities to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last year from leaving the country, a lawyer said.The High Court made the request...
May 20 2013 // A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world’s largest apparel maker, U.S.-based VF Corp.VF confirmed...
May 20 2013 // Lumbermens Mutual Casualty, American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance and American Motorists Insurance Cos. have been placed in liquidation in Illinois, according to the state insurance department. State insurance guaranty...
May 16 2013 // A trans-Atlantic divide between European and U.S. retailers over how best to respond to fatal disasters in Bangladesh textile factories split wide open on Wednesday, with U.S. retailers claiming their European counterparts...
May 13 2013 // Lumbermens Mutual Casualty, American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance, and American Motorists Insurance Companies have been placed in liquidation in Illinois, according to the state insurance department.State insurance...
May 13 2013 // U.S. senators appeared close to finalizing a bill that would require pharmacies that compound and sell sterile drugs across state lines to submit to greater federal regulation.The proposed legislation comes in the wake of...
May 6 2013 // Earlier this year, scientists from Cornell University successfully created an artificial human ear by printing it on a 3D printer. Created by squirting living cells into an injection mold, the ears could replace those of...
May 2 2013 // The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after a building collapse killed more than 400...
May 1 2013 // Two Western retailers have promised to compensate families of garment workers killed while making their clothes in a Bangladesh factory building that collapsed last week in the country’s worst industrial accident.The...
Apr 25 2013 // At least 175 mainly women workers were killed in a Bangladesh building collapse and rescuers searching for survivors said on Thursday that many more were trapped in the rubble of a complex that housed factories supplying...
Apr 24 2013 // An eight-story block, housing garment factories and a shopping center, collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring hundreds more, officials said.Fire fighters...
Apr 11 2013 // Proposed federal and state gun legislation is having an unintended effect on growth in the gun insurance market across the country. Experts in this segment say new policy submissions dealing with all aspects of guns,...
Apr 11 2013 // Four Japanese automakers including Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co are recalling 3.4 million vehicles sold around the world because airbags supplied by Takata Corp are at risk of catching fire or injuring...
Apr 10 2013 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, is making its biggest push yet to try to improve conditions at factories that produce its clothing after a fire at a Bangladesh factory last year killed 112...