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2 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.

1 week ago | industryweek.com | Jill Jusko

The strike at Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut is over, and approximately 3,000 union members will soon be returning to work at plants in East Hartford and Middletown, where they produce jet aircraft engines. On May 27, members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Locals 700 and 1746, soundly ratified a new contract, with 74.1% voting yes.

1 week ago | industryweek.com | Anna Smith

Check out our list below to see what manufacturing facility announcements captured our attention in the month of May. Emirates Global Aluminium has selected Oklahoma as the preferred site for a $4 billion investment to build a new primary aluminum production plant, the first of its kind built in the U.S. since 1980. The facility will be located on over 350 acres and will produce billets, sheet ingots, high-purity aluminum and foundry alloys.

1 week ago | industryweek.com | Ryan Secard

Seventeen months after their initial offer to purchase U.S. Steel, the tide may be turning for Nippon Steel. In a Truth Social post May 23, President Donald Trump announced that he would approve of a deal in which Tokyo-headquartered Nippon Steel will invest $14 billion in U.S. Steel and form a “partnership” with it that would keep its headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA and reportedly require government-approved board members.