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First private sector steel complex comes on stream – The Express Tribune

January 13, 2013

TSML is located at the Port Qasim over an area of 220 acres. The mill, built at a cost of $342 million, will produce 1.28 million tons per year of Directly Reduced Iron in the first phase. PHOTO: FILE KARACHI: Noting that the cost of doing business in Pakistan is favourable to private businesses, Prime Minister […]

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Everything you need to know about 3-D printing – The Week Magazine

January 12, 2013

What is 3-D printing? It’s a revolutionary manufacturing process in which the design for physical objects, from toys to jewelry to machine parts, can be digitally transmitted to a device that makes them out of plastic, metal, or ceramic materials. Once the stuff of science fiction, 3-D printers have rapidly evolved in recent years, becoming […]

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US Manufacturers Gain Edge over Foreign Competition with Quality and … – EP Magazine

January 11, 2013

U.S. Manufacturers Gain Edge over Foreign Competition with Quality and Sustainability Initiatives Environmental sustainability is being increasingly linked to initiatives in “lean manufacturing”, an area in which U.S. manufacturers have excelled for years. The focus of lean manufacturing is to reduce waste—wasted materials, motion, time, effort, inventory, transportation expense, and other expenses involved in the […]

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Mike Molnar to deliver keynote at MIT forum – MIT News

January 11, 2013

 The MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation today announced that Mike Molnar, chief manufacturing officer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will deliver the keynote at the forum’s March 28 conference, “Global Supply Chain Strategy: Outsourcing, Re-shoring and Near-shoring.”Molnar’s keynote, “Designing the Future of US Manufacturing; Creating Sustainable Innovation Hubs,” will focus on […]

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Made in America, Again – MIT Technology Review

January 11, 2013

Offshore labor: A worker in a Foxconn factory assembles consumer electronics for U.S. markets. At a dinner for Silicon Valley big shots in February 2011, President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to manufacture the iPhone in the United States. Apple’s founder and CEO is said to have responded directly: […]

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Debt deal, moderate growth, slightly lower jobless rate among 2013 predictions – Chicago Sun-Times

January 11, 2013

BY FRANCINE KNOWLES Business Reporter fknowles@suntimes.com January 10, 2013 7:16PM Speaker Dr. Bob Froehlich during Annual Economic Outlook luncheon at Hyatt Regency Chicago, Thursday, January 10, 2013. l John H. White~Sun-Times photo Updated: January 10, 2013 7:37PM Action that raises the U.S. debt ceiling and that avoids a downgrade of U.S. debt, more insourcing of […]

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Ron Paul’s 32 Parting Questions to Congress – The Moral Liberal

January 10, 2013

Ron Paul BY STEVE FARRELL Congressman Paul, with that approach that has ever been Ron Paul, recently delivered his final straight forward, to the point, penetrating analysis of the trouble with a Congress, and federal government, that has recklessly  parted from the ways of America’s Founders, via 32 questions addressed to […]

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MAPI: Manufacturing Activity Mixed, Cautious Optimism Looking Forward – Shopfloor

January 10, 2013

The Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI) said that its composite index of manufacturing activity fell slightly from 56 in third quarter of 2012 to 55 in the fourth quarter. As I have noted before, this index has declined every quarter since the second quarter of 2010, when it stood at just above 80. […]

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QE and EM – Investing Daily

January 10, 2013

The inevitable end of the US Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing (QE) will surely create volatility in the markets both in the US and abroad. But thanks to the “virtuous cycle” of capital inflows and national investment that QE has already generated around the world, its demise won’t be a signal to abandon emerging markets. For […]

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Thanks to Natural Gas, American Manufacturing is Coming Roaring Back – NorthcentralPa.com

January 9, 2013

Affordable, safely-produced domestic natural gas is not only luring manufacturers back to the U.S., but these abundant, clean-burning resources are also providing a much-needed competitive edge to manufacturers operating in America. This week, once again, several reports underscore these positive impacts, and the compounding industrial opportunities brought to the U.S. through the responsible development of […]

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