Across manufacturing, the debate on automation and robots replacing humans in the workforce continues – but what about the need to replace humans with humans? More »
While City Hall works on a plan to preserve manufacturing in East Williamsburg, the gentrification buzzsaw is already taking its toll More »
Throughout the Central Appalachian region — Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky — community leaders have a keen understanding that they must find new industries to replace coal. And there is a near universal conviction that any hope to diversify local economies requires high-bandwidth connections to the outside world. This conviction has led to a series of initiatives, some misguided and some on target, to bring broadband to this isolated region. More »
As data centers become living brains, is the role of the human set to be diminished? More »
Suburban office parks know they have to up their game to entice companies and workers away from the bright lights of downtown areas that many now call home. More »
Cities are right to pour their energy into home-grown businesses. But they should think twice before becoming those businesses’ first customers or investors. More »
Education secretary calls for more emphasis on work-force training. Many experts -- including those focused on careers -- say general education matters more than she suggests. More »
Rowan University's explosive growth had Glassboro officials worried that students would overrun the center of town. So Rowan and Glassboro went in on an all-new one to take care of that problem. More »
There's a 40 percent productivity gap between large and small firms, requiring small firm investment that will give the entire industry a boost, according to the report.
Nationally, action is possible through the America's Small Manufacturers Act, proposed in February. It's still in committee, but shows that some legislators are looking at what small manufacturers need from the Small Business Administration. More »
Across the U.S., designated historic districts attract more business, jobs and tourists than nearby neighborhoods. More »
An up-and-coming San Francisco-based apparel company that uses fashion consultants, data analysts and complicated mathematical algorithms to dress its clients, and that had sales of nearly $1 billion last year doing so, now has a foothold in Berks County. More »
NEENAH, Wis. — In Winnebago County, they’ve seen the paper mills close, one by one.
While Kimberly-Clark, founded here in 1872, still employs several thousand people locally, abandoned mills dot smaller towns in the region. Paper production has moved to cheaper locales overseas with less stringent pollution rules. That has left a pall — and a sense of fear and insecurity — hanging over places like Neenah, even as factories in other industries are still humming.
For many, the villain is trade. More »
The U.S. solar industry needs help fighting unfair competition from China.
Matt Card is executive vice president at Suniva, a Georgia-based solar cell and module manufacturing company. More »
On Monday, Victaulic president and CEO John Malloy announced that the company would invest “tens of millions of dollars” over the next two years building a light assembly operations facility in Lower Nazareth that features cutting-edge technology. It also will upgrade plants in Forks and Lower Macungie and add up to 50 jobs in Forks.
Malloy, who has led the company for more than 15 years, spoke with The Morning Call about Victaulic’s business as well as the present and future state of American manufacturing. Here are excerpts from the interview More »
Thousands of Indian sellers have shipped bedding, jewelry, kitchenware
and clothing to Amazon warehouses to serve bargain-hunting Americans. More »
The company’s real estate is now worth more than its market value. More »
For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Census of Agriculture. More »
Seattle is experiencing some serious growing pains, and many longtime residents blame Amazon for forcing their town to grow up too fast. More »
Alabama and North Carolina are the last remaining candidates in the running to land a prized $1.6 billion Toyota-Mazda plant, presenting stark differences spanning from production costs to talent availability. More »
Today, pure e-commerce customers make up about 10% of Prologis' portfolio. But it's where the growth is. Roughly 20% of new sales can be traced to these companies and to e-commerce-related demand from DHL, UPS and FedEx. More »
