#manufacturing
articles
Slovakia's Factories and Israel's Venture Capital Are a Natural Fit
Israel filed 15,180 patents in 2024 to Slovakia's 466, yet Slovakia runs one of Europe's strongest factory bases. Their ...
Land, GST and FDI Predictability Are India's Real Test for 2047
Economists say land-record fixes, a predictable investment policy and completing GST and labour reform matter more than ...
German Auto Industry Employment Falls Below 700,000, Lowest Since 2005
Official data show 42,300 German auto jobs disappeared in a year, with parts suppliers hit hardest as the wider manufact...
Egypt Approves New Mahalla Spinning Company and Distressed Factory Restructuring Fund
Egypt's cabinet backs a split-off Ghazl El-Mahalla textile company and a state investment fund to restructure distressed...
How DRT Group Kept Deliveries Flowing After Storm Kristin's Destruction
Sónia Calado’s company faced a crippling storm, yet met every order. But China’s price undercutting is the bigger long-t...
Trucking Rates Rise as Supply Tightens, but Demand-Led Recovery Remains Elusive
Over-the-road pricing has gained for months, but the improvement stems mostly from reduced capacity due to tighter CDL r...
Hydropower's Transformer Crisis: The 60-Month Bottleneck Threatening U.S. Fleet Modernization
As the U.S. hydropower fleet ages past 80 years, ballooning lead times and import dependence on large power transformers...
Bulgaria Industrial Output Drops 2.5% YoY, But Tech Manufacturing Booms
Overall industrial production fell in June, but a 39.3% surge in electronics output and steep declines in mining and tex...
KARL MAYER Opens Textile Innovation Center to Drive Next-Gen Athletic Footwear
The German textile machinery leader’s new facility in Obertshausen aims to accelerate shoe-upper development with advanc...
Turkey's Export Climate Index Hits 52.2 as Germany and UK Return to Growth
The ISO Manufacturing Export Climate Index rose to 52.2 in July, its highest since early 2024, as eight of Turkey's top ...
China Factory-Gate Inflation Slows to 3.5% as Domestic Demand Lags
Producer price inflation in China rose just 3.5% year-on-year in July, the slowest pace in three months, while consumer ...
Tesla and SpaceX to Build World's Largest Chip Plant in Texas with $14.55 Billion Investment
The Terafab facility will produce custom silicon for Optimus robots, robotaxis, and SpaceX’s space data centers, bypassi...
Boeing’s 777X Crisis: How a Dreamliner’s Big Brother Became a $110 Billion Nightmare
The 777X was meant to be Boeing’s crown jewel, but endless delays, technical missteps, and ballooning costs have left it...
Germany's Export Record Masks a Deepening Investment Crisis
Despite a June export high and slight Q2 growth, falling business investment and a discouraging policy mix suggest Germa...
ITMF Survey: Textile Conditions Weaken in July, But Outlook Stays Positive
The 39th ITMF Global Textile Industry Survey shows current business conditions fell to -26pp from -17pp in May, while si...
Texachem Solutions Targets Bangladesh Textile Mills with Efficiency-Driven Chemical Offerings
Pakistani chemical firm Texachem Solutions aims to enter Bangladesh’s textile market with formulations that promise lowe...
Global Textile Machinery Investment Plunges in 2025, But China Still Drives Capacity
ITMF data shows worldwide machinery shipments fell sharply last year, with China alone absorbing over 90% of filament te...
Apple's India Sales Cross $10 Billion as Retail Push Takes Hold
Apple's India revenue topped $10 billion in fiscal 2026 as iPhones led double-digit growth and the company widened its r...
ISM Manufacturing Index Jumps to 55.6, Its Strongest Reading Since May 2022
The U.S. factory sector grew for a seventh straight month in July, with production surging and hiring returning for the ...
Five Proposals to Stop the ‘Silent Erosion’ of German Industry
A leading German daily warns that politically self-inflicted investment weakness is eroding the country’s research-inten...
China vs India: What a Decade of Data Says About Two Development Models
China bet on factories, India on services. A decade of trade data shows neither model delivers cleanly — and neither is ...
China's H1 Logistics Value Rises 5.1% as High-End Manufacturing Reshapes Demand
China's social logistics value hit 181.1 trillion yuan in H1 2026, up 5.1% year on year, as high-tech manufacturing and ...
The Outbound Revolution: How Top Manufacturers Hire Leaders Without Job Boards
As job boards flood with unqualified applicants, companies are turning to outbound recruiting to reach passive candidate...
White Goods Production in Turkey Plunges 15% as Export Slump Deepens
Turkey's white goods sector saw domestic sales fall 7% and exports drop 19% in H1 2026, with industry leaders blaming ri...
From Tesla to AI Factories: Adi Prasad’s Lessons from Musk and Kalanick
The MIT and Harvard MBA grad recounts working under Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick before founding Matter, an AI-driven m...
China's Factory Activity Unexpectedly Shrinks in July as Domestic Demand Flags
Both manufacturing and services PMIs slipped into contraction, missing forecasts and marking the first factory contracti...
Changcheng Precision Returns to IPO With Shrinking Margins and an Ambitious Expansion Bet
Three-time domestic champion in niche bearings pivots to ChiNext, but slipping margins, overseas losses, and a capacity ...
Toyota-Trained Manufacturers Dive into Space, AI and Cocktails to Attract Fresh Talent
Companies born from Toyota’s supply chain in Japan’s Mikawa region are using their manufacturing precision to break into...
Aldous Bio Targets €100M Revenue by 2030 After Nazca Takes Control
Spanish supplement maker Aldous Bio has brought in private equity firm Nazca as majority shareholder, with a plan to qui...
Brother Industries Claims Top Design Award for Multi-Tool Machining Centre
The SPEEDIO U500Xd2-100T, capable of holding 100 tools and enabling extended unmanned runs, secured the Japan Machine To...