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The Milwaukee Brewers secured the first World Series title in the franchise’s 57-year history this week, and a longtime neighborhood business came up with a novel way to celebrate. But it just so happens that the business in question is one of the nation’s most prominent beer brands, as well as among the inspirations for the team’s name. Molson Coors said Thursday that it will offer limited-editio...

An explosion and fire caused by an illegal liquor distillery in Wilkes County, North Carolina, prompted an investigation that led to the operator’s arrest and the seizure of 161 gallons of moonshine. The probe took place after local and state authorities notified the North Carolina Department of Public Safety’s Alcohol Law Enforcement (ALE) division of a structure fire in North Wilkesboro linked t...

A 75-year-old woman was recently added to the FBI's Most Wanted List for defrauding a bank and posing as a fake heiress to the McDonnell Aircraft Family fortune. ​The FBI is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Mary Carole McDonnell, a former true-crime producer and new "Most Wanted Fraudster" with ties to L.A., Montgomery, Alab...

Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing , a podcast that asks young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the industry and what they are looking for from an employer. For this episode, I welcome Justin Baerwald, a 34-year-old operations lead for manufacturing and logistics at Inland, a provider of label and packaging solutions for a variety of indu...

What makes Boom Supersonic special is not just that it is working toward supersonic flight or revolutionary power generation, but that it's trying to do so with the same fundamental technology and the same team. Yesterday, the company took another giant leap forward when it unveiled its first complete supersonic turbine core, which it is shipping this week to Boom’s test site at Colorado Air...

BMW is attempting to cut 8,000 corporate positions – an objective that’s not necessarily unusual as businesses across the globe look to trim the fat. What is, perhaps, unique is that BMW’s exit offer is quite enticing… so much so that interest in the severance package was so reportedly so immense it caused BMW’s online employee portal to “malfunction.” According to German news agency Handelsblatt...

PepsiCo this week promptly shut down a bottling plant in East Tennessee and cut over 100 jobs amid broader concerns within the company about its beverage business. The food and beverage giant said in a brief statement Monday that it made the “difficult decision” to close the Knoxville plant “immediately.” The company indicated in a filing with state officials that the move would result in 112 layo...

The weather’s getting colder and seat heaters might be getting switched on soon. But for most consumers, comfort levels drop significantly when you go from warming your seat to roasting it over an open flame. That’s why Hyundai has issued a recall impacting nearly 100,000 vehicles. Specifically, the automaker is calling back nearly 40,000 Genesis G80 vehicles produced between March 2016 and Novemb...

EV maker Rivian decided they wanted to have some fun with their customers this Halloween and - when that’s the case - who you gonna call? Apparently Sony Pictures - where a collaboration with the studio, says Rivian, will “bring the Ghostbusters universe to all Rivian vehicles.” Delivered last week via an over-the-air software update, Rivian is transforming its vehicles into “ghost-hunting machine...

Engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder have designed invisible multicolored tattoo inks that can be switched on and off with different kinds of light.  The ideological version of this technology would allow individuals to hide their tattoos during important business meetings—and not for any other reason ever.  The inks, known as "PhotoTat," are made from dyes and a plexiglass-...

Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing, a podcast that asks young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the industry and what they are looking for from an employer. For this episode, I welcome Rayyan Shafqat, a 15-year-old student at Brooklyn Technical High School. Shafqat recently designed an Arduino-based carbon monoxide detection system that au...

When Volkswagen-backed Scout Motors announced in 2023 that it would be building a sprawling factory in Richland County, South Carolina, reaction for the community was largely positive. The goal for the 110,000 square-foot-plant was to produce 200,000 vehicles per year and employ 4,000 workers. But more recently, the supporters of this project have declined by at least two. An elderly couple who li...

Investigators in Northeast Philadelphia responded to the scene of an alleged cargo theft this week. A truck driver from Wisconsin reported that he had driven his rig to Pennsylvania before settling down for the night to rest in a parking area. At 3:45 am, the driver awoke to his cab shaking and discovered that three individuals had broken the vehicle’s seal and begun loading pallets of meat into a...

The name VinFast might ring a bell - not because you’ve likely seen its auto badge out on the road, but because the company has made some headlines over the past few years. This Vietnam-based EV maker, in 2022, pledged to build a $2 billion factory in Chatham County, North Carolina. The goal of this plant was to open in 2026 and produce 150,000 VinFast vehicles each year, a task they said would em...

Researchers from North Carolina State University are using powdered eggshells to make high-quality magnesium alloys that could be used in an array of automotive, aerospace and biomedical applications. And while Americans consume roughly 275 million eggs every single day, we certainly have a substantial waste stream to work with.  The researchers believe the eggshells could help create a low-cost,...

When Figure, a company developing humanoid robots, needed ideas for disposing of its previous generation, an elegant solution came from a somewhat unlikely source. The company said that with its fleet of Figure 03 bots growing, it no longer had the time and space to support Figure 02. But it couldn’t just throw out the humanoids and risk someone getting their hands on all types of proprietary tech...

When the pigeons started getting a little too familiar at one Ford factory, plant managers turned to another bird for help. Ford’s 12 million-square-foot facility in Hermosillo, Mexico employs more than 4,000 workers and builds more than 300,000 pickup trucks and SUVs every year. It also used to have a serious pigeon infestation issue. According to the Wall Street Journal , the stout-bodied birds...

Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have created a new biomimetic autonomous drone. Released from the air, the Albatross falls like a maple seed, lands on the water and then rights itself to sail autonomously by harvesting wind energy. These drones could one day monitor environmental conditions for weeks at a time. After all, remote waters are difficult to mon...

On Friday afternoon, a massive industrial fire erupted at the East Jordan Plastics Factory in South Haven, Michigan. The blaze started at 3:47 pm and firefighters remained on the scene until the site was finally cleared around 6:00 am Saturday. A giant column of smoke could be seen for more than 40 miles, and at least 16 different fire departments used about 2 million gallons of water to contain t...

Ultium Cells, the joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution, announced plans to retool its Spring Hill, Tenn. facility to manufacture prismatic lithium manganese-rich (LMR) battery cells for future GM electric vehicles. The companies anticipate construction and upgrades will begin this year, with completion scheduled for 2028. The project also intends to create 500 jobs. Ultium C...

Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing , a podcast that asks young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the industry and what they are looking for from an employer. For this episode, I welcome Nick Knotts, a 25-year-old graduate research assistant for Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center at the Colorado School of Mines. Knotts s...

A recent situation at a Purina plant in Flagstaff, Arizona resulted in a visit from the local Fire Department. Responders were called to an active chemical leak at the plant, which produces hundreds of thousands of tons of dog food annually for brands like Alpo, Beneful and Pro Plan. According to reports, the factory team came upon a chemical spill of approximately 10 gallons and evacuated its boi...

The new facility will consolidate its current locations in Iowa and California. A century-old Iowa honey producer has broken ground on what it says will eventually be the largest honey bottling plant in the world. The Sioux Honey Association Co-op held a ceremony Tuesday to officially start construction on a 440,000-square-foot facility in Sioux City. The $130 million project, KTIV-TV reported, wo...

The Lego Group today announced a massive $400 million expansion in Monterrey, Mexico. The project will add 62,000 square meters, increase total production capacity by 35% and create additional packing and warehousing capacity. It will also add 1,300 jobs by 2029. The facility currently has some 7,300 employees. The Lego Group has continued to expand its Monterrey factory since it opened in 2008. C...

A West London man was sentenced to three and a half years in prison after police uncovered an “underground vinyl manufacturing plant operating on an industrial scale.” According to officials, the facility generated more than $3.5 million by producing and distributing thousands of counterfeit vinyl records across the UK. The City of London Police estimate the underground plant, led by 40-year-old R...