American Machinist is reporting Navistar plans to close an operation in the Chicago suburbs, causing 250 to lose their jobs: Navistar International plans to close its Melrose Park, Ill., operation and sell the location to ...
Americans may not be aware of it, but the United States has been experiencing a steel boom of late. Last month, U.S. Steel Corporation produced the first ton of steel at a brand-new facility in ...
Gardner Intelligence reported Monday that 53% of discrete parts manufacturers have no seen no change to their business because of COVID-19, according to their survey taken March 2. Less than that – 39% – said ...
Associated Press is reporting Thursday that the first phase of a U.S.-China trade agreement will be inked at the White House in mid-January. The so-called “Phase One” agreement is smaller than the comprehensive deal Trump ...
US Manufacturing isn’t dead, despite all the reports to the contrary, manufacturing writer Jim Vinoski wrote a few days ago in Forbes. The industry has had its share of ups and downs, there’s no doubt. ...
WASHINGTON – Federal numbers say that US unemployment fell to the lowest in years, with 3.9 percent. In other words, over 96 percent of Americans that want jobs have them. It’s the lowest since the ...
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued the following news release today: Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to the ...
By Zach Mottl – For more than 100 years, my company, Atlas Tool Works, has been making precision parts and components in Illinois. In that time, our state has benefited from the middle-class jobs created ...
Manufacturers and business service providers posted a strong month of hiring in April, helping cut the U.S. unemployment rate to 3.9 percent, the lowest level since December 2000. Employment in manufacturing grew by 24,000. Much ...
U.S. manufacturing technology orders for the first two months of 2018 climbed 27 percent higher than the same period in 2017, signaling continued strength in the recovery initiated in June 2017, according to the latest ...
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