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Auto Manufacturing, UAW Converge In The South
The ongoing push to keep the UAW and labor unions out of foreign automobile manufacturing plants in the South continues. Mercedes got a slap on the wrist for impeding union literature in its Alabama plant while Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam continues to …
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New Wood Construction Technology Gets Boost
The funding will enable Riddle Laminators, the glue-laminate operation of DR Johnson, to collaborate with a research team of OSU faculty and students to construct a pilot manufacturing line for CLT at its facility and to test the CLT produced at the …
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Manufacturing Jobs are 'Good' Jobs. Not So Fast, Report Says
Factory jobs are returning, but they're not the middle-class work force bedrock they used to be. Although American manufacturing is experiencing a modest rebound, the days when a factory job could support a family comfortably are over. A new report …
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Cooper Tire Begins Testing Tires Made with Guayule Component
The consortium received the BRDI grant in 2012 from the USDA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct research aimed at developing enhanced manufacturing processes for the production of solid rubber from the guayule plant as a biomaterial …
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Soybeans Poised to Tumble
“Yield reports in the U.S. continue to be strong as well, which keeps the possibility of further yield and production increases in future USDA reports very much in focus,” says Michael McDougall, the head of the Brazil commodities desk at brokerage …
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