Category: Manufacturing

June 25, 2020

WASHINGTON — Orders to American factories for big-ticket goods rebounded last month from a disastrous April and March as the U.S. economy began to slowly reopen. The Commerce Department said that orders for manufactured goods meant to last at least […]

June 1, 2020

The numbers: American manufacturers are still struggling mightily from coronavirus-related shutdowns and the damage to global trade, but they showed faint signs of revival in May as most states loosened restrictions and people began returning to work, a survey of […]

May 7, 2020

BERLIN — Industrial production in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, dropped 9.2% in March compared with the previous month as shutdowns around the continent and elsewhere started to bite, official data showed Thursday. The figures reported by the Economy Ministry came […]

April 24, 2020

WASHINGTON — Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods plunged 14.4% in March, a worse-than-expected performance that underscored the severe impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on the U.S. economy The March follows a 1.1% gain in February, before […]

March 3, 2020

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Apple Inc.’s most important manufacturing partner, expects its Chinese plants to begin operating normally by the end of March after resolving severe labor shortages brought on by the coronavirus outbreak. The Taiwanese company, which assembles […]

March 2, 2020

Euro-area factories saw the first clear signs of the coronavirus hitting their business in February, with widespread delivery delays and steep declines in foreign orders. The epidemic, which has spread to the European continent after emerging in China late last […]

February 17, 2020

The impact of Coronavirus outbreak will be felt on global steel industry for at least two to three years, as China is the largest producer of the alloy, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday. The minister also asked Indian […]

February 11, 2020

Britain’s economy saw zero growth in the final quarter of last year as manufacturing shrank heading into the country’s general election that unlocked Brexit, official data showed Tuesday. “There was no growth in the last quarter of 2019 as increases […]

February 7, 2020

If you’re looking for work, would the auto industry provide job security? President Trump promised “nearly 100,000 new high-paying American auto jobs” in his State of the Union address Tuesday, a result of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). He added that […]

January 31, 2020

Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings Plc secured a 500-million-pound ($656 million) lifeline to restore the balance sheet and help build a new sport-utility vehicle after agreeing to sell a minority stake to billionaire Lawrence Stroll. The deal agreed late Thursday […]