Manufacturing News 13 July 2025

Global Market Turmoil: Asia’s Factories Stumble, US Tariffs Bite, Oil Soars – What’s Next?

In-Depth Analysis: Asia’s Manufacturing Slowdown: Business surveys on Nov 3–4 revealed broad weakness. China’s S&P Global (private) PMI dipped to 50.6 in October reuters.com as new export orders fell sharply amid tariff concerns. Official data also showed China’s factory output contracting for the 7th straight month. Japan’s manufacturing PMI was even weaker – 48.2 in October (from 48.5), its lowest since Mar 2024 reuters.com. Pollyanna De Lima of S&P noted, “demand weakness, particularly in the automotive and semiconductor sectors, weighed on Japanese manufacturing” reuters.com, though firms are optimistic that U.S. tariffs’ “detrimental impact… will fade” and future output will recover

5 November 2025

Xometry (XMTR) Stock Soars on Record Q3 Earnings – What’s Next for This AI Manufacturing Marketplace?

Key Facts (as of Nov 4, 2025) Stock Price & Recent Performance Xometry’s stock (NASDAQ: XMTR) has been on a tear in early November 2025. On Nov 4, 2025, shares skyrocketed ~24% intraday following the Q3 earnings announcement, peaking around $60 and nearing a 52-week high of $60.68 ainvest.com. It closed the day at roughly $60.23 (up from $48.57 the prior session) investing.com. This record high represents a dramatic one-day gain and continues a strong upward trend – the stock has more than tripled from its 52-week low of ~$18.59 earlier in the year investing.com. In the days leading up

4 November 2025

AI Technology · Earnings Reports · Investment Analysis · Manufacturing · NASDAQ:XMTR · Stock Market

AirPods Pro 3 vs AirPods Pro 2: 6 Huge Upgrades You Need to Know

Apple’s AirPods Production Boom in India – Foxconn Doubling Output & Hiring 5,000

Foxconn Expands AirPods Production in Hyderabad Apple is rapidly scaling up AirPods manufacturing in India. According to sources, Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) – a subsidiary of Apple’s main manufacturing partner Foxconn – plans to double production at its Hyderabad, Telangana plant within the next 6–8 months hindustantimes.com. The Kongara Kalan facility (about 15 km from Hyderabad’s airport) currently produces just over 100,000 AirPod units a month after starting mass production in April 2025 hindustantimes.com. By early 2026, that output is targeted to reach 200,000 units per month, effectively doubling capacity hindustantimes.com. To achieve this, Foxconn is undertaking a major expansion of

27 October 2025

Apple · Electronics · India Business · Manufacturing · Technology

Osram Stock Plunges on German Plant Closure – Key Facts & Forecast

Factory Closure Shocks Local Community In Schwabmünchen (near Augsburg, Bavaria) the announcement that Osram’s factory will shut by end-2027 hit as a bombshell. Long-time plant manager Rainer Barthel recalled seeing “tears in the eyes of several employees” when learning the news augsburger-allgemeine.de. At a workers’ meeting on Oct 22 the company explained that unprofitable traditional lighting segments (industrial lamps and auto bulbs) have shrunk and could not be saved. Ams OSRAM said it explored options – even talks with a defense-industry firm – but ultimately decided closure was unavoidable augsburger-allgemeine.de b4bschwaben.de. Local media report that roughly 270 jobs will vanish (plus dozens

23 October 2025

Business News · Company Analysis · Economic Forecast · Manufacturing · Stock Market

Uzbekistan’s Big Bet: Import Fair 2025 Sparks a ‘Made in Uzbekistan’ Boom

Import Fair 2025: Turning Imports into Local Industry Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent buzzed with business activity as the country opened the First International Uzbek Import Fair 2025. The exhibition, held at the Uzexpocentre on October 7–9, is a cornerstone of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s industrial strategy to boost local production. Deputy PM Jamshid Khodjaev, inaugurating the fair, emphasized its mission to deepen industrial cooperation, support domestic manufacturers, and promote import substitution uzdaily.uz. The theme “Optimizing Imports and Increasing Local Content” underscores a shift in policy: instead of curbing imports via tariffs or bans, Uzbekistan wants to partner with foreign firms to produce

9 October 2025

Business Trends · Economic Development · Manufacturing · NYSE:ITX · Trade Fairs · Uzbekistan Economy

Why Puerto Rico Could Reclaim Its Status as a Pharmaceutical Powerhouse: The Hidden Opportunity Behind Reshoring

Puerto Rico’s pharmaceutical roots and the Section 936 story For much of the late 20th century, Puerto Rico was an unlikely but critical component of America’s medicine chest. The island’s status as a U.S. territory provided access to federal intellectual‑property protections, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight and the “Made in USA” label—all while offering costs and tax advantages more akin to an emerging market. The most potent driver was Section 936, enacted in 1976, which exempted profits earned by U.S. corporations in Puerto Rico from federal income taxes. Pharmaceutical giants set up dozens of plants, creating tens of thousands of jobs and

6 October 2025

Business Opportunities · Manufacturing · Pharmaceuticals · Puerto Rico Economy · Reshoring

China’s Manufacturing Slump Deepens: Factories Freeze for 6th Month – Experts Warn of Lingering Weakness

Manufacturing Activity Stalls – PMI Still in Contraction China’s official manufacturing PMI in September was 49.8, up slightly from 49.4 in August but still indicating contraction bloomberg.com reuters.com. This means more factories are shrinking output than expanding. September marked the sixth consecutive month the PMI stayed below 50, the longest downturn since mid-2019 bloomberg.com. Reuters notes this “prolonged slump” reflects the economy’s struggle with weak demand and trade pressures reuters.com reuters.com. As one analyst put it, “The rebound reflects a seasonal uptick… but a continued upcycle is still some way off” given capacity and global headwinds reuters.com. Bloomberg also highlighted

30 September 2025

China Economy · Economic Slowdown · Expert Analysis · Industry Trends · Manufacturing · Stock Market

Big Pharma’s Billion-Dollar Bet: Inside Eli Lilly’s $5B Virginia Factory and America’s New Drug Manufacturing Boom

Richmond’s New Pharma Giant: Overview of Lilly’s $5B Factory Eli Lilly’s forthcoming Richmond-area factory is set to be one of the largest and most advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in the world. At a cost of $5 billion, Lilly will construct a high-tech production campus in Goochland County’s West Creek Business Park, a site that had been prepped for a previous project and now deemed “the perfect spot” for fast construction washingtonpost.com. The facility’s core mission: make more of the critical drug ingredients that Lilly usually sources overseas, right here on U.S. soil washingtonpost.com washingtonpost.com. Scale and Scope: The plant will

16 September 2025

Drug Industry · Eli Lilly · Innovation · Manufacturing · NASDAQ:AZN · NYSE:JNJ · NYSE:LLY · NYSE:NVS · NYSE:SNY · Pharmaceuticals

Rivian’s $5 Billion Georgia EV Megaplant: A Bold Gamble to Outdrive Tesla, Ford & More

Rivian’s Georgia Factory: A High-Stakes EV Expansion Rivian Automotive has broken ground on a long-delayed electric vehicle plant in Georgia – a project deemed essential to the startup’s future in the fiercely competitive EV market rapidcitypost.com. The planned factory, located near Social Circle (about 45 miles east of Atlanta), will be Rivian’s second U.S. assembly plant after its Illinois facility reuters.com. Envisioned as a state-of-the-art manufacturing campus for the company’s next-generation R2 SUVs and crossovers, the site will initially be capable of 200,000 vehicles per year from 2028, with room to double to 400,000 in a second phase rapidcitypost.com techcrunch.com.

16 September 2025

Automotive Industry · Electric Vehicles · Manufacturing · Market Competition · NASDAQ:RIVN · Rivian

Chiplet Technology 2025: Design Tools, Yield Challenges, and Market Adoption

Chiplet architecture splits monolithic chips into multiple dies in a single package, improving wafer yields and reducing cost, with AMD reporting up to 70% cost reduction in EPYC servers versus a comparable single-die design. Chiplets enable mixing of process nodes, for example high-density cores on 5 nm while I/O dies run on 16 nm, maximizing performance-per-cost. Chiplet designs decouple innovation paths, allowing CPU cores and memory/I/O to advance on separate timelines. The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) defines a universal die-to-die interface with data rates from 8 to 32 GT/s, and UCIe 1.0 launched in 2022. 2.5D/3D packaging approaches such

13 July 2025

Chiplet Design · Manufacturing · Market Trends · NASDAQ:AMD · NASDAQ:INTC · NASDAQ:NVDA · NYSE:TSM · Semiconductor Industry · Technology

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