Among the projects underway is a Texas plant that over time will grow to produce 10 million Optimus robots per year. CEO Elon Musk told analysts and investors that Optimus could “be useful outside of Tesla sometime next year.”

CNC EDUCATION GRANTS Scholarships and Sponsorships Gene Haas Foundation supports competitions that empower students to explore technical career pathways. Through these challenges, participants design, build, and compete with their creations, gaining hands-on experience in real-world manufacturing. W...

Notable Gains and Losses Healthcare and Social Assistance: +89,900 Leisure and Hospitality: +44,000 Construction: +26,000 Transportation and Warehousing: +21,000 Manufacturing: +15,000 Government: -8,000 Financial Activities: -15,000 Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000, and the unemploym...

IndustryWeekly Laura Putre April 20, 2026 List updated 4/20/2026 Maybe you’re a high-school or undergraduate student interested in working in a manufacturing or manufacturing-adjacent field that requires a college degree or technical training. Or perhaps, you’re an adult thinking about going bac...

Agence France-Presse  Dec. 11, 2025 From IndustryWeek   In September, U.S. goods imports increased as a whole, but those of capital goods like computers and electric apparatus dropped, according to Commerce Department data.   The U.S. trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in September to the smalle...

Take a virtual fly-through of the new 2.4 million sq ft Haas Automation headquarters currently under construction in Henderson, Nevada. This 3D-rendered tour showcases the impressive scale and layout of the facility, including the lobby, demo room, event center, and full production areas like the ma...

From IndustryWeek Aug. 7, 2025 Jacob Stoller   On June 27, Ford’s CEO Jim Farley became the latest in a succession of prominent executives warning of large-scale job cuts consequent to AI deployment. “Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the ...

Posted by btaylor.media@gmail.com on 06/16/2025 5:24 pm   Reshoring Initiative (RI) has tracked the announced plans of US companies to reshore manufacturing work since the early 2010’s. In its new 2024 summary and forecast for 2025, tariffs weigh heavily on company decisions. If you’re ro...

Industry Week, June 10, 2025   The South and Midwest accounted for 81% of reshoring and FDI jobs announced last year. Anna Smith   The U.S. continued to see a strong number of job announcements from reshoring and foreign direct investments (FDI) last year, according to the Reshoring Initiativ...

by Bloomberg  A. Longley, D.K Kumar, C. Charleston  | Monday, May 19, 2025 Oil ended the session slightly higher following a volatile day of trading as investors look for clues about Russia-Ukraine truce talks and a potential nuclear deal with Iran. Brent futures traded higher to settle near $65....

May 19, 2025 In what would be a historic development, a Dubai-based conglomerate has a $4-billion plan to build and operate a primary aluminum plant in northeast Oklahoma. The first new aluminum smelting operation in the U.S. in 45 years would produce 600,000 metric tons of primary aluminum annually...

by Bloomberg | Monday, May 12, 2025 Oil and most other commodities powered higher, while gold fell, after China and the US ratcheted down trade tensions that had threatened to slash demand for raw materials. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 1.5% to settle at $61.95 a barrel in New York, while co...

by Bloomberg  Mia Gindis, Alex Longley  | Thursday, May 8, 2025 Oil rose as President Donald Trump announced a trade framework with the UK, spurring some optimism about deals to come. West Texas Intermediate climbed 3.2% to approach $60 a barrel. Trump said the UK would fast-track US items throug...

by Bloomberg  Alex Longley, Joe Ryan  | Thursday, May 1, 2025 US oil futures broke a three-day string of losses as equity markets strengthened and President Donald Trump threatened broader sanctions against buyers of Iranian crude. West Texas Intermediate settled 1.8% higher, at $59.24 a barrel a...

by Bloomberg  Mia Gindis  | Thursday, April 24, 2025 Oil rose as producers’ promises to keep output growth in check added to signs of the physical market’s strength and a potential easing in trade tensions between the US and China. West Texas Intermediate futures climbed 0.8% to settle near $...

by Andreas Exarheas | Rigzone Staff  | Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 7:09 AM EST LINK   According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released earlier this month, the U.S. will produce 13.45 million barrels of crude oil, includi...

Published Mon, Apr 14 202510:37 AM EDTUpdated Mon, Apr 14 202512:28PM EDT By: Hayden Field  @haydenfield From: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/nvidia-to-mass-produce-ai-supercomputers-in-texas.html   Nvidia, the chipmaker that powers much of today’s artificial intelligence boom, on Monday announ...

By Ben Berkowitz https://www.axios.com/2025/04/09/trump-tariffs-pause-china-stocks-recession President Trump paused the sweeping reciprocal tariffs the U.S. imposed this week, saying dozens of countries had reached out to negotiate new trade deals. Why it matters: It’s the relief global mar...

Industry Week | March 25, 2025 | Ryan Secard, Robert Brooks Hyundai Steel Company announced March 24 that it would build a new $5.8 billion electric arc furnace steel mill in Louisiana to supply steel for Hyundai Motor Group. The latest announcement follows a previous Hyundai announcement it would ...

From Industry Week | March 24, 2025 | Anna Smith Whether companies import goods or manufacture products across national borders, President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy poses a major threat, raising the specter of increased costs. But there’s another group of producers — companies that alread...