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    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Joe Biden
      Biden courts union votes in trip to Midwest car plant

      US president hails ‘game-changer’ deals struck by workers and backs unionisation at Tesla and Toyota

      Joe Biden
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in America
      Ohio’s rustbelt turns into a magnet for chip fabs

      Tech investors say ‘Hi, not Goodbye, Columbus’ as projects worth tens of billions crowd in

      Aerial view of the Intel chip manufacturing site in Licking County
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Willy Shih
      What the ubiquitous syringe tells us about US supply chains

      Domestically made products like syringes currently cost more than those produced in China

      A BD needle ready for use
    • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
      General Motors Co
      GM says strike has cost $800mn as 5,000 more workers walk out

      United Auto Workers target lucrative factory for Suburban and Escalade models in widening action

      Striking United Auto Workers members from the General Motors Lansing Delta Plant picket in Delta Township, Michigan
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Special Report
      US Manufacturing

      The White House is confident a new era of industrial policy can underpin a renaissance in US manufacturing. This report examines how businesses are taking advantage of billions of dollars of federal incentives, industry concerns over skills shortages and the prospects for long-term success

      Students observe a robotic device at a training facility at the Tennessee College of Applied Technology campus
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Oren Cass
      Rebuilding US industry via green transition makes no sense

      The US needs an industrial finance authority with a long-term commitment to drive both public and private capital

      Electrician apprentices, a man and a woman, practice working on a programmable logic controller at the Kentuckiana Electrical Apprenticeship and Training trade school in Louisville, Kentucky,
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Special ReportUS Manufacturing
      Robotics offers route for US manufacturing renaissance

      Advances in automation and AI provide an opportunity to compete globally

      Two persons on stage presenting a humanoid robot
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Special ReportUS Manufacturing
      Doubts linger over Biden’s industrial push

      Despite a boom in factory building, many worry that government efforts will not sustain a manufacturing revival

      US President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks on his economic plan at TSMC Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility in Phoenix, Arizona
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Special ReportUS Manufacturing
      White House bullish on rising manufacturing jobs

      Senior Biden official says employment figures are expected to track a jump in factory construction

      Heather Boushey speaks during a Senate hearing
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Special ReportUS Manufacturing
      Worries over skills gap overshadow US jobs boom

      Companies are working in-house and with colleges to boost technical expertise

      Employees wearing cleanroom suits walk beneath Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHS) vehicle robots moving along tracks on the ceiling inside the GlobalFoundries semiconductor manufacturing facility in Malta, New York
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      US Treasury bonds
      US Treasury yields hit 16-year high as bond rout resumes

      Strong factory data reignites selling in global debt markets after brief recovery

      Line workers spot weld parts of the frame on the flex line at Nissan’s car manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tennessee
    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      News in-depthUnited Auto Workers
      Strike pits US auto union in existential struggle over shift to electric vehicles

      Carmakers are building batteries with non-union labour, while EVs’ production may require fewer workers overall

      Senator Bernie Sanders and UAW President Shawn Fain speak at a rally in support of United Auto Workers members on September 15 in Detroit, Michigan
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      US Inflation Reduction Act
      Inside the $220bn American cleantech project boom

      One year after the IRA and Chips Act became law, FT research shows who is winning the investment race

      A montage of US President Joe Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and a bar graph
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      Tesla Inc
      Tesla CFO and company veteran Zach Kirkhorn quits

      One of Elon Musk’s closest lieutenants will be replaced by accounting chief Vaibhav Taneja

      Zach Kirkhorn
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      The fight for the right to repair

      Citizens must become campaigners for better, longer-lasting smart machines

      Jonathan McHugh illustration of a printer being repaired and calibrated.
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Automobiles
      US carmakers face a union looking for its ‘defining moment’

      Contract talks carry risks for big three and Biden’s re-election push in battleground states

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      The new era of big government: Biden rewrites the rules of economic policy

      Forty years after Reaganomics rejected government intervention in the economy, the US is embracing massive subsidies. But will voters notice?

      A montage photo of a Viridi Parente worker, the US flag and US great seal
    • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
      News in-depthUS employment
      US manufacturing jobs at highest levels since 2008 but growth is slowing

      Data shows mixed picture for President Joe Biden as he hangs re-election prospects on industrial boom

      Joe Biden speaks at an event
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Climate change
      US cannot rely on allies to meet climate goals, warns Mitsubishi

      Domestic manufacturing and ‘friendshoring’ will struggle to supply the clean energy boom

    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Ashtead Group PLC
      Ashtead profits jump 30% as US manufacturing moves ‘onshore’

      UK equipment rental group sees momentum from big construction projects and Biden legislation

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      Bruce Katz
      Old industrial cities can be central to America’s economic future

      The legacy assets they retain may prove crucial to the country’s manufacturing

      Mill workers in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1917
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Aircraft manufacturing
      Boeing CEO warns climate-friendly biofuels will ‘never achieve the price of jet fuel’

      David Calhoun tells transport executives there is no cheap way of decarbonising air travel

      A fuel pipeline is connected to a Boeing 777 aircraft at London Stansted airport
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Ford Motor Co
      Ford strikes lithium deals in bid to secure EV battery supplies

      Carmaker seeks to reduce $7bn cost gap with rivals by simplifying ranges and supply chains

    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      News in-depthElectric vehicles
      Welcome to Normal: the town that holds the keys to Rivian’s future

      Cash-burning electric vehicle start-up recruits workers in Illinois corn belt pursuing 50,000-delivery goal

      Rivian pick-up trucks on the assembly line in Normal, Illinois
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      29 min
      Why 3D printing is vital to success of US manufacturing | FT Film

      New additive manufacturing technology can boost innovation and jobs in a de-globalising world

      The future of manufacturing
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