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2024 to be the year of the Sustainable Supply Chain

Manufacturer's Monthly

The year 2024 will see the logistics industry make its most significant shift to date towards sustainability, with investments in this space set to skyrocket, according to MEGATRANS show director, Lauren Chartres. The past few years have been about securing supply chains at any cost, after they were disrupted by the pandemic.

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Victoria conference to put spotlight on freight and logistics workforce

AU Manufacturing

Minister for Ports and Freight Melissa Horne has opened the state conference of the Victorian Transport Association , which will centre on the workers who support the $21 billion freight and logistics sector that is the state’s economic force. It also discusses the effects of the severe floods from last year on the sector.

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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. In response, metalworkers continue to invest in automation, robotics and machinery to speed up their processes, manufacturing highly precise and accurate components and parts. Excelta Corp.,

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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 A Manufacturing PMI ® above 42.5 manufacturing sector continued to contract, though at a marginal rate compared to December. TEMPE, Ariz. , Feb. Fiore , CPSM, C.P.M.,

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Will autotech ventures race east in 2024?

Robotics Business Review

Submit your nominations for innovation awards in the 2024 RBR50 awards. They included Embark (a loss of $300 million), Uber Freight (a loss of $680 million), TuSimple (a loss of $775 million), and even Alphabet’s Waymo Via (losses undisclosed). We’ve also recently moved into the factory manufacturing distribution space.”

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Ballard announces further U.S. financial support for gigafactory in Texas

Canadian Manufacturing

The 48C program, which provides 30% investment tax credits for selected clean energy manufacturing projects, is designed to support secure and resilient domestic clean energy supply chains. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization and the National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy. ”

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WA welcomes large water pipe manufacturing with new Steel Mains contract

AU Manufacturing

Western Australia is set to house a manufacturing facility for extra-large water pipes with Water Corporation ’s new $58 million contract with Steel Mains. . “These will be the largest steel water pipes ever manufactured in WA and will eliminate reliance on pipe trucked over from the eastern states.”.