Latest Manufacturing Headlines
All the headlines from our Manufacturing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Thai Floods Batter Global Electronics, Auto Supply Chains
Oct 28 2011 // Manufacturers of car parts and computer hard drives are the worst hit in Thailand, and face a bleak key holiday selling season due to massive floods, which have shut down production. Japanese car makers that had just...
Ohio Businesses Awarded More Than $200K for Workplace Safety
Oct 27 2011 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) reported that 10 Ohio businesses received more than $217,000 in safety intervention grants in September to improve workplace safety. The Safety Intervention Grant...
Markel’s Investment Unit Buys Manufacturing Firm
Oct 24 2011 // Markel Corp.’s subsidiary Markel Ventures purchased a majority interest in WI Holdings, a Pennsylvania-based manufacturing firm. The companies made the announcement last week. WI Holdings is a privately held company...
Federal Product Safety Database Faces First Legal Challenge
Oct 20 2011 // Praised by consumer advocates and denounced by manufacturers, a new federal database for safety complaints about everything from baby gear to household appliances is facing its first legal challenge. A motion has been...
Fire Manufacturing Plant Near Dallas Contained, Authorities Say
Oct 4 2011 // A fire at a chemical plant south of Dallas shot massive plumes of black smoke and bright orange flames into the sky on Oct. 3, forcing schoolchildren and residents to evacuate or take cover indoors to avoid possible...
Despite National Recession, South Dakota Sees Growth
Oct 3 2011 // Agriculture and manufacturing have spurred the South Dakota economy to moderate prosperity in the backwash of the national recession. Gains on the farm and in some factories have offset soft times in housing and the...
Best Affirms FM Global Group and Members ‘A+’ Ratings
Sep 26 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of ‘aa’ of FM Global Group (FM Global) and its members, which includes the lead...
Video on West Virginia Plant Leak Urges Manufacturing Safety
Sep 26 2011 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, releasing a video depicting a deadly chemical leak at a DuPont plant in Belle, West Virginia last year, said the final investigation report should remind every manufacturer to make safety a...
Western Heritage, NBIS, Totem to Offer Manufactured Housing Program
Aug 15 2011 // Western Heritage Insurance Co. has introduced a new program for manufactured housing communities. This new program will be underwritten and administered by NBIS CTIS, a managing general underwriter specializing in risk...
Hanover Adds Environmental Coverage for Industrial Manufacturers
Aug 9 2011 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. has expanded its Hanover Specialty Industrial insurance program for manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors by adding environmental liability protection. The additional coverage will...
Berkshire Insurance Loss Offset By Rails, Manufacturing Gains
Aug 7 2011 // Warren Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reported a larger second-quarter profit Friday, as favorable investment results and strength in the rail and manufacturing businesses offset another underwriting...
Mass. Gun-Maker to Pay $600K in Gun-Death Lawsuit
Jul 28 2011 // A Massachusetts gun-maker has agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to the families of one man who was killed and another man who was wounded in a shooting involving a gun allegedly stolen from the company, a national gun-control...
Samsung Says Study Finds Workplace Isn’t Cause of Employees’ Cancer
Jul 14 2011 // A study commissioned by Samsung Electronics rejected assertions that employees may have been exposed to carcinogenic chemicals at its plants, as several cancer-stricken former employees of the world’s top memory...
Catastrophes Issue Wake-Up Call on Supply Chain Risks
Jun 6 2011 // The Japanese earthquake and tsunami that occurred in March 2011 served as a wake-up call of sorts for businesses vulnerable to supply chain exposures. Subsequent intense weather events in the United States during April and...
Catastrophes Issue Wake-Up Call on Supply Chain Risks
Jun 6 2011 // The Japanese earthquake and tsunami that occurred in March 2011, as well as intense spring weather, served as a wakeup call of sorts for businesses vulnerable to supply chain exposures: It’s important to prepare for...
Catastrophes Issue Wake-Up Call on Supply Chain Risks
Jun 6 2011 // The Japanese earthquake and tsunami that occurred in March 2011, as well as intense spring weather, served as a wakeup call of sorts for businesses vulnerable to supply chain exposures: It’s important to prepare for...
ISO Adds General Liability Classifications for Alternative Energy, Nanotechnology
May 31 2011 // ISO has announced new general liability classifications for alternative energy sources and nanotechnology. ISO is introducing most of the new classifications with accompanying estimated loss potentials. “With...
China Urges Greater Attention to Safety at iPad Factory After Blast
May 25 2011 // China asked Foxconn Technology Group and other Taiwanese firms to pay more attention to safety, after a deadly blast at a Chinese factory making iPads for Apple. Production in parts of the plant in the southwestern Chinese...
Catastrophes Issue Wake Up Call on Supply Chain Risks
May 24 2011 // The Japanese earthquake and tsunami that occurred in March 2011 served as a wake up call of sorts for businesses vulnerable to supply chain exposures. Subsequent intense weather events in the United States during April and...
WTO Faces Tough Choices after Latest Doha Round Setback
Apr 22 2011 // World Trade Organization members face a somber Easter Sunday because of a fight over manufacturing trade between the United States and major emerging economies like China, India and Brazil that could finally kill...
