Most Popular Manufacturing Headlines This Year

The most viewed headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page over the last year.

#1 Fire and Explosion at North Carolina Manufacturing Site Under Investigation

Sep 16 2025 // Authorities were investigating a fire and explosion at a Fiberon plant in North Carolina that injured four workers late last week. The Queen City News and other sites reported that the facility in New London, which makes...

#2 Manufacturer Fined $500K for Violating OSHA Rule Leading to Ohio Worker’s Death

Jun 12 2025 // Fabcon, a Delaware corporation with a manufacturing facility in Ohio, was sentenced to pay a $500,000 fine, the statutory maximum, after pleading guilty to willfully violating an Occupational Safety and Health...

#3 Oregon OSHA Fines Manufacturer for Workplace Safety Violations

Dec 22 2025 // A Tualatin, Oregon company intentionally kept a faulty system in place for storing raw materials, exposing employees to struck-by and crushing hazards, an inspection by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division...

#4 Wisconsin Paper Manufacturer Cited for Safety Violations

Aug 4 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor has cited an Appleton, Wisconsin paper products manufacturer for allegedly exposing employees to dangerous energy and machine guarding hazards after an employee suffered two finger-tip...

#5 Kennedy Wants FDA to Close Food Manufacturers’ ‘Self-Affirm’ Safety ‘Loophole’

Mar 12 2025 // U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. directed the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food...

#6 Airbnb Billionaire Plans Factory-Built Homes for LA Fire Victims

Feb 20 2025 // Billionaire Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb Inc. and a board member of Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc., plans to donate $15 million of factory-built dwellings to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.The pre-fabricated...

#7 Iowa-Based Ice Cream Manufacturer Issues Recall Over Plastic Concerns

May 20 2025 // An Iowa-based ice cream manufacturer has recalled nearly 18,000 containers of ice cream and frozen yogurt over concerns they could contain pieces of plastic. Wells Enterprises issued the voluntary recall last month,...

#8 Owner of Water Machine Manufacturer Charged in $275 Million Fraud Scheme

Aug 25 2025 // The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Ryan Wear, of Marysville, Washington, and his entities, Water Station Management LLC and Creative Technologies, Inc., for operating two related Ponzi-like schemes between...

#9 Elon Musk Says First Tesla Drove Itself From Factory to Customer

Jul 1 2025 // Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said a Tesla Model Y SUV drove itself from the company’s factory near Austin to a customer’s home in the company’s latest move to showcase its push into...

#10 Michigan Battery Manufacturer to Pay $95K Over Disability Discrimination Suit

Jun 20 2025 // Navitas Systems, LLC, an Ann Arbor, Michigan battery manufacturer, will pay $95,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal...

#11 Michigan Paper Manufacturer Agrees to $300K Settlement Over PFAS Contamination

Jun 27 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a settlement agreement with Domtar Industries, LLC and E.B. Eddy Paper, Inc. (together, Domtar) to address releases of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the...

#12 Tariff Gloom Weighs on US Manufacturing; Delivery Times Lengthening

Jun 3 2025 // U.S. manufacturing contracted for a third straight month in May and suppliers took the longest time in nearly three years to deliver inputs amid tariffs, potentially signaling looming shortages of some goods.President...

#13 Tariff ‘Chaos’ Drags Key Texas Manufacturing Gauge to Worst Since 2020

Apr 29 2025 // A widely followed measure of Texas manufacturing activity weakened significantly as executives used words like “chaos” and “insanity” to describe the turmoil spurred by President Donald...

#14 Car Manufacturer Sued for Refusing to Allow Jewish Employee to Observe the Sabbath

Jul 8 2025 // FCA US, LLC, an international automobile manufacturer of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Fiat car brands, violated federal law by refusing to accommodate an employee’s request to observe the Sabbath and take unpaid...

#15 OSHA Cites Florida Missile Manufacturer After Fire Injures Workers

Jul 15 2025 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reported that it has cited an Orlando, Florida target-missile manufacturer for exposing workers to fire, burn, and inhalation hazards. Aerojet Rocketdyne was...

#16 Michigan Auto Parts Manufacturer Sued for Discrimination

Sep 17 2025 // An auto parts manufacturer with a facility in Plymouth, Michigan, violated federal law when it refused to allow an older, female worker with a disability to re-enter its apprenticeship program, the U.S. Equal Employment...

#17 Billionaire-Backed California City Pitches Plans for Factory Hub

Jul 18 2025 // California Forever, the proposed futuristic community backed by billionaire venture capitalists, is now billing itself as a manufacturing center a year after local opposition forced it to withdraw plans to incorporate a...

#18 UK Car Theft Crisis Pits Manufacturers Against High-Tech Gangs

Jun 20 2025 // To the untrained eye, the red shipping container at Felixstowe looked no different to the thousands of others stacked up at Britain’s busiest seaport.Destined for Africa, its contents were listed as “household...

#19 Illinois Chemical Manufacturer Reaches $400K Settlement With EPA

May 9 2025 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act with Nalco Production LLC and Nalco Co. LLC. The companies manufacture polymer blend chemicals at their facility...

#20 US Plans $750M Fly Factory in Texas to Stop a Flesh-Eating Cattle Parasite

Aug 18 2025 // The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging the American cattle...