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Workers Flee Manufacturing City; Coke Engineer Sentenced; Chemical Plant Blast | Today in Manufacturing Ep. 67

Also on the podcast, Canoo is running out of money, Stratolaunch tests world's largest plane, VW is adding 1,000 jobs, Tesla might buy a mining company and AGCO attack shuts down operations.

Production Ramping Up at Lordstown Facility … For Fisker and Foxconn

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Abbott to Restart Troubled Baby Formula Plant

Abbott recalled baby formulas made at its plant in Sturgis.

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Workers Flee After Lockdown Fears in Manufacturing City

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Foxconn Could Take Over Lordstown; Big Strike in Midwest; Mini Urban Airports | Today in Manufacturing Ep. 66

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Stolen Tesla Crashes Into Tesla at a Tesla Charging Station

The crash resulted in "major damage."

Automaker Explores Spinning Off EV Company

Separate electric and gas companies could each employ 10,000 workers by next year.

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A Rundown on Laser Safety

Their use in common applications does not mean they are always inherently safe.

Using a common, commercially available pacifier, the researchers created a system that samples a baby’s saliva through microfluidic channels.

Smart Pacifier Developed to Monitor Infant Health

Researchers tested the smart pacifier on a selection of infants in a hospital.

The Federal Aviation Administration reported the single-engine Cessna 172 lost power just before Saturday's crash.

Small Plane Crashes on Bridge Near Miami, Striking an SUV

The plane lost power and burst into flames after crashing.

Children living in a cocoa-producing village walk back from the fields on the outskirts of the town of Oume, Ivory Coast, on June 30, 2005.

Some Chocolate Has a Dark Side to it: Child Labor

And the industry hasn't committed to put an end to it.

Traffic flows along Interstate 90 highway as a Metra suburban commuter train moves along an elevated track in Chicago on March 31, 2021. With upcoming data showing traffic deaths soaring, the Biden administration is steering $5 billion in federal aid to cities and localities to address the growing crisis by slowing down cars, carving out bike paths and wider sidewalks, and nudging commuters to public transit.

Buttigieg Sends $5B to Cities for Safety as Road Deaths Soar

Buttigieg stressed the urgency.

Last month Spirit said that after speaking with financial and legal advisers, its directors believed JetBlue’s offer could “reasonably” turn out to be the better of the two deals. But on Monday, May 2, 2022 the company announced that it was determined that JetBlue's offer “is not reasonably capable of being consummated.'

Rebuffed Twice, JetBlue Goes Hostile in Bid for Spirit

Spirit's board favors Frontier's bid.

President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure agenda at the New Hampshire Port Authority, Portsmouth, N.H., April 19, 2022.

Six Months in, 4,300 Infrastructure Projects Underway

More than $110 billion in funding has been announced so far.

For more than two decades, California's Orange County has debated whether to build a seaside plant to convert the Pacific Ocean's salt water into drinking water in hopes of buffering against droughts like the one now gripping the nation's most populous state.

California Nixes Plant, But Says Open to Desalination

Commissioners said the plant would damage marine ecosystems and make water too pricey.

ManTech, which provides national security technology services and software to the U.S. government, posted $2.55 billion in sales last year.

Carlyle Group Acquiring Defense Contractor ManTech for $4.2B

Shares of ManTech jumped more than 15% in premarket trading Monday, to $94.30.