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    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Volkswagen AG
      VW to build $2bn electric vehicle plant in South Carolina

      German carmaker also seeks site for its first battery factory in North America

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      Electric vehicles
      Electric vehicles defy price war after Ford and Tesla discounts

      GM, Volkswagen, Hyundai and Kia decline to follow competitors as customer demand persists

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      LexSemiconductors
      Apple/chips: homemade chips does not mean homemade fabs Premium content

      The iPhone maker’s links with Asian contract suppliers are unlikely to be broken

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
      TSMC reaffirms ‘commitment to Taiwan’ despite US chip push

      Semiconductor maker says it has spent $60bn at home to expand cutting-edge production

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      Year in a word: Decoupling

      Rising inequality, Covid and war in Ukraine have led to growing support for localisation

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Electric vehicles
      Union wins election in first at Detroit-owned electric vehicle battery plant

      Ohio-based venture of General Motors and LG Chem is successfully organised by United Auto Workers

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      Workers need more than platitudes about ‘green jobs’

      The net zero transition is a social challenge as well as a financial and technological one

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      US economy
      Recession watch: manufacturing edition

      Labour markets look good. US manufacturing does not.

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      Margins are still too high Premium content

      Plus, the mystery of industrial stocks

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      News in-depthFT Film32 min
      Manufacturing in America, post-globalisation | FT Film

      How an all-American clothing supply chain impacts jobs, businesses and communities

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      Ford Motor Co
      Ford chief warns electric vehicles require 40% less labour

      ‘Storm clouds’ face workers as US carmaker pursues aggressive sales goals

    • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      The new rules for business in a post-neoliberal world

      Laissez-faire economics in the US is slowly being replaced by a more intensive policy focus from start to finish

    • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
      European Union
      EU urges US to rethink tax breaks in landmark green legislation

      Brussels is latest to complain about provisions that would benefit US production of electric vehicles

    • Monday, 3 October, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      Investors are learning to love industry again

      A range of factors is driving a resurgence of interest in manufacturing

    • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
      Intel Corp
      Intel seals $30bn partnership with Brookfield to fund chip factories

      Plans feed into wider effort to boost manufacturing and regain market share from Samsung and TSMC

    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      Disrupted Times
      Global manufacturing struggles with shrinking demand

      Ukrainian grain leaves Odesa, UK tries to stem ‘dirty money’, sandwich industry in a pickle

    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      News in-depthSemiconductors
      Chipmakers battle for slice of US government support

      Package to reverse global decline of nation’s semiconductor industry will only go so far

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      America must do more in the trade tug of war

      The US still has plenty of room to re-industrialise and increase domestic demand

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      Amit Khandelwal
      Time to lift Trump’s tariffs on China to fight inflation

      The Biden administration should end a trade war that has made America worse off

    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      Ford Motor Co
      Ford to invest $3.7bn in Midwest US manufacturing amid electric vehicle push

      US carmaker will invest in assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio and Missouri

    • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
      Robin Harding
      Electric vehicles accelerate China’s looming dominance as a car exporter

      For Japanese and European carmakers, the challenge is that while EVs may be high-tech, they are not complex

    • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
      Special ReportNavigating Cyber Risk
      In charts: Industry leaders gain ‘false sense of cyber security’

      Survey of 350 US and European manufacturers shows more confidence than best practice

    • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
      InterviewSemiconductors
      Chip supplier says China will struggle to develop advanced technology

      Japanese semiconductor materials maker JSR warns Beijing lacks necessary infrastructure to catch up

    • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      Davos and the new deglobalisation

      Technological progress suggests the turn from globalisation can bring benefits as well as challenges

    • Monday, 21 March, 2022
      Semiconductors
      Chipmakers face two-year shortage of critical equipment

      Intel admits expansion to be restricted as it works with ASML to boost capacity

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