Biden Administration Policies Tax incentives. Current tax incentives included in recent industrial policy packages—chief among them the IRA—aim to provide a launchpad for domestic manufacturers. They are meant to spur production of multiple goods necessary to the green transition, including the active materials production stage of the lithium-ion battery supply chain. When it comes to […]

“While the recent pitch for domestic manufacturing has hooked a diverse group of players — equipment suppliers, government, academic institutions, nonprofits, specialty manufacturers — global pharma companies have conspicuously kept their distance,” writes Pharma Manufacturing’s Chief Content Director Karen P. Langhauser. A broad and generic approach to reshoring ignores the many nuances that make up […]

The food & beverage sector is another high-level adopter of mobile robots. Within this segment there is a large number of cases and pallets which need to be moved, a task well suited for a robot to complete. It is a sector with very predictable end demand, said Sharma, and there is a growing direct-to-consumer […]

Private equity investments are getting scaled back worldwide, as “higher for longer” interest rates and uncertain global growth have dampened investor appetite for risk, And Southeast Asia, just a few years ago seen as a budding hotspot for the digital economy, is no exception. A new report from Bain and Company shows that private equity […]