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Embrace Disruption: The Supply Chain

Fabricating & Metal Work

COVER STORY Metalworkers can build supply chains that can bend without breaking thanks to innovative strategies, processes and products. Where do things stand regarding the state of the supply chain as we enter the summer of 2023? “I In the meantime, supply chain challenges persist, hampering best-laid plans.

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Assessing The Rising Input Costs Associated With The Global Pandemic

Donlouco

The trend actually started in 2018, lost momentum in 2019 due to economic downturn based on US import taxes etc and during 2020 saw poor demand but prices remained static due to reduced production. Fig 1: Source : Trading Economics. Increasing Sea Freight Costs. Fig 2: Source : Financial Times.

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Manufacturing PMI® at 49.1%; January 2024 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

Fastener News Desk

Chair of the Institute for Supply Management ® (ISM ® ) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: “The Manufacturing PMI ® registered 49.1 The overall economy continued in expansion for the 45th month after one month of contraction in April 2020. (A There is a real short-term increase in the cost of international freight.”

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Stronger together: WA Super Branch supports national supply network

Manufacturer's Monthly

It is here that Steve Burgess, regional business manager for Motion Australia, oversees the company’s WA Super Branch – a one-stop shop for all things industrial supply. “In In 2020, the originally separate BSC and CBC branches merged, providing a much more holistic service to the area,” he said. “We

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Foot on the gas: How biomethane is helping hauliers decarbonise

SMMT

James Westcott, Chief Operating Officer at Gasrec, said June’s gas sales represented a 250 per cent increase versus March 2020, when demand had been soaring prior to the pandemic. Arla Foods is now turning cow manure from its farms, and food which would otherwise go to waste, into a source of renewable fuel.

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Nature-inspired tech to move transport towards net-zero

E&T

million in 2020 to 11.2 The team uses a battery of algorithms to find the most efficient solutions for problems such as where to best place a wind farm, or schedule vessels in a complex supply chain. Deloitte forecasts their numbers will grow from 2.5 million in 2025 and 31.1 million by 2030.

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Manufacturing PMI® at 48.4%; December 2022 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

Fastener News Desk

Chair of the Institute for Supply Management ® (ISM ® ) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: “The December Manufacturing PMI ® registered 48.4 The Manufacturing PMI ® figure is the lowest since May 2020 , when it registered 43.5 Fiore , CPSM, C.P.M., percent, 0.6 percent, 2 percentage points lower than the 47.2