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Manufacturing PMI® at 46%; June 2023 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

Fastener News Desk

The Production Index reading of 46.7 A potential bright spot: The Customers’ Inventories Index dropped into ‘too low’ territory, a positive for future production. Output/Consumption (measured by the Production and Employment indexes) was negative, with a combined 7.7-percentage percent recorded in May.

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3D-printed rocket launch successful; second stage, less so

E&T

EDT (03:25 GMT on Thursday) from a launchpad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Base. It is betting on the cost savings it expects to achieve using giant, robotic 3D-printers to simplify its rocket production lines. Relativity is one of a number of US rocket start-ups competing to meet the growing demand for cheap launch services.