
Articles
-
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.
-
1 week ago |
industryweek.com | Laura Putre
General Motors on Tuesday announced it would invest $888 million in its Tonawanda Propulsion Plant in New York State, a welcome decision for both the United Autoworkers union and the governor of New York. The investment would go toward machinery, tooling and renovations at the plant to build the automaker’s new sixth-generation V-8 engines for full-size trucks and SUVS. Production of fifth-generation engines would continue during construction, which is expected to wrap up in 2027.
-
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.
-
1 month ago |
industryweek.com | Jill Jusko |Geert De Lombaerde |Anna Smith |Laura Putre
Editor’s note: Welcome to So That Happened, our editors’ takes on things going on in the manufacturing world that deserve some extra attention. This will appear regularly in the Member’s Only section of the site. Guess who is celebrating a centennial in 2025? It's Caterpillar Inc., which officially turns 100 on April 15.
-
2 months ago |
industryweek.com | Laura Putre
That’s why we’ve ended up growing in Mexico, to about 850 employees. We have a facility in Norcross, Georgia, and a facility in Houston, Texas, that do what we call “dailies”—the stuff that the uniform industry orders today and they need on their doorstep tomorrow. If an order comes into Norcross or Houston for name tags and company items by three o’clock in the afternoon, we ship same day.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →