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  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Chinese-backed solar factory stirs suspicions in rural Ohio

    Local opponents raise fears over Beijing’s influence as US aims to reshore supply chain

    Illuminate USA’s 1mn sq ft solar panel factory in Pataskala, Ohio
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Automobiles
    Emboldened US union launches membership drive across 13 carmakers

    Tesla, Toyota and Volkswagen among companies targeted after UAW wins concessions at Detroit’s Big Three

    United Auto Workers on a picket line in Detroit in September
  • 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

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