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    Strategic Planning & Execution

    Intel Risks Gutting Itself By Spinning Off Its Chip Foundry

    Dec. 17, 2024
    Ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger was right about one thing: Intel should keep its semiconductor manufacturing.
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    Competitiveness

    China’s Threat to Ban Critical Mineral Exports Is Not a Bluff

    Dec. 3, 2024
    Rare-earth mineral restrictions are a very real option that the US should be actively preparing for.
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    Public Policy

    How Big Should a President Go on Manufacturing Policy?

    Oct. 28, 2024
    As the campaigns round the home stretch, experts weigh in on priorities for the next administration.
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    Competitiveness

    Huge US Lithium Mine Gets Government Approval

    Oct. 24, 2024
    Operations at the Nevada site will produce enough lithium to supply the batteries for more than 370,000 electric vehicles every year, the Australian mining company says.
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    Companies & Executives

    Entegris Charts Its US Path as a Chip-Industry Supplier, Branching out from Asia

    Sept. 9, 2024
    CEO Loy: “We are the lifeblood of those fabs. And yet nobody knows about us.”

    Recommended

    Ebooks & Digital Editions

    eBook: Reshoring Manufacturing: Progress & Challenges

    Aug. 11, 2024
    Experts in the water treatment, pharmaceutical, chemicals and manufacturing world look at how reshoring is changing the rules of the market.
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    Trade

    Mexico Has a New President: What Does Sheinbaum’s Election Mean for US Manufacturing?

    June 12, 2024
    Outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s term was marked by rapid growth and enhanced trade in North America. Can the economic expansion continue?
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    Profiles in Leadership

    A Cargill Executive’s Next Act: Building US Biomanufacturing

    April 26, 2024
    'I’ve lived the struggle,' says Jack Starr, chief of manufacturing for BioMADE, of the industry’s challenges.
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    Competitiveness

    Nearshoring and China's Four 'Ds'

    April 25, 2024
    Demographics, debt, drought and decoupling are rewriting the total-cost equation.
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    Competitiveness

    US to Grant Samsung up to $6.4 Billion for Chip Plants

    April 16, 2024
    President Joe Biden's administration has previously approved billions in grants to U.S. titan Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company as it tries to avoid the prospect...