
Geert De Lombaerde
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3 days ago |
industryweek.com | Jennifer Ramsay |Jill Jusko |Geert De Lombaerde |Laura Putre
In 2023, I wrote a story that featured custom fabrication company Morgan Li. Earlier that year, the company suffered a devastating blow when its 230,000 square-foot finished-goods warehouse, one of its five domestic facilities, was destroyed by a massive fire. The third-generation family business made plans to build a new facility in the same Chicago Heights neighborhood where it lost its warehouse space.
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2 weeks ago |
industryweek.com | Geert De Lombaerde |Laura Putre |Dennis Scimeca |Anna Smith
Things Could Get Chippy at 3M Since taking over at 3M Co. a year ago, Chairman and CEO Bill Brown has preached about the need to regenerate the company’s organic growth engine, including by launching new products at the rate the conglomerate used to. At the recent Bank of America Industrials, Transportation & Airlines Key Leaders Conference, Brown spoke of another opportunity to goose 3M’s top line.
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1 month ago |
industryweek.com | Robert Schoenberger |Anna Smith |Jill Jusko |Geert De Lombaerde
Making products and selling them is so 20th Century. It’s as backwards as manufacturing your goods in your own facilities instead of sourcing everything to sometimes-unreliable global supply chains. No, smart, modern companies know that as-a-service is where it’s at. Why own anything when you can shift all capital expenditures to operating line items?
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1 month ago |
industryweek.com | Jill Jusko |Geert De Lombaerde |Anna Smith |Ryan Secard
With all of the recent talk about reshoring production to the United States, many companies have complained about not being able to find local suppliers, especially in certain high-tech industries dominated by companies from China. Thanks to more than a decade of state-sponsored investments, China controls much of the market for powerful batteries needed for electric vehicles, starting with the raw materials needed to produce them.
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