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May 2025's Weekly Reads: The Hottest Headlines from our Site 📰
Welcome to the May 2025 edition of our Weekly Reads! We've curated the week's most popular content across our site, based on reader engagement. While you're here, don't forget to catch up on our Top 10 list. But there's more - plenty to delve into for the curious mind! 🤓
Here's what's trending this week:
🚀 5G Conquers Manufacturing: John Deere Tackles Challenges: Exploring the perks and hurdles of deploying private 5G networks for modern manufacturing powerhouses. 🛰️
🏄 Slate's Minimalist Electric Pickup: A Stylish Affordability Revolution 🚗: As Jeff Bezos-backed Slate unveils its budget-friendly electric pickup with minimalist features, here's what to expect! 💰
💭 The Doer Trap: Leaders Beware 🏋️♂️: Persisting in always solving problems may seem heroic, but what's the cost? Learn how to break free from this trap and foster real change.
🏆 Manufacturing's Century Warriors: Which companies have thrived for 100 years or more and deserve our respect? Discover the seven enduring titans that have withstood the test of time. 🏆
🤝 Airbus Shakes Hands with Spirit AeroSystems: Following Boeing's acquisition last year, expect Airbus to chart a new course with Spirit AeroSystems, a key supplier. 🚀
💰 Tariffs - Opportunities, Challenges, and Production Pulse: The latest tariff changes are reshaping the manufacturing landscape, with winners and losers abound. Join the debate! 💰
🗣️ "Not a Hanging Pattern" - Nucor Steels' Outlook 💡: Despite industry concerns, Nucor executives are optimistic about demand growth in the steel industry - but why? Find out! 🗣️
📰 So That Happened: Battery Manufacturing in the US, and More 📰: This week's top manufacturing stories include updates on battery production, a dog food strike resolution, lessons learned from Asian partners, and more! 📰
🛀 Washing-Machine Tariffs: A Clean Success for US Manufacturing 🛁: Gaining valuable insights from the success of the Trump-era washing-machine tariff policy. 🛁
🌐 Intel vows to Trim the Fat 📈: Intel's recent financial struggles are pushing the chipmaker to streamline operations - learn how they plan to bounce back! 🌐
Enrichment Data:
- Austin Powder Company (1833): The oldest Ohio manufacturing company and one of the oldest explosives producers in the world.
- Pfizer Inc. (1849): One of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in North America.
- E.R. Squibb & Sons/Bristol Myers Squibb (1858): A pharmaceutical manufacturer founded in Brooklyn, NY that was officially formed in 1892.
- Caswell-Massey (early 1700s): America's oldest existing company, producing perfumes and soap. Despite being primarily a consumer goods company, it is notable for its longevity.
- In the manufacturing industry, Jeff Bezos has made an investment in Slate, a company set to release an affordable electric pickup truck with minimalist features.
- Deploying private 5G networks for modern manufacturing powerhouses is a topic explored in an article about John Deere and the advantages and challenges they face in this area.
- Airbus is expected to create new strategies following its acquisition last year, having formed a partnership with Spirit AeroSystems, a significant supplier.
- Bezos, whose contributions to technology and finance extend beyond Amazon, is also making strides in the aerosystems business, as Slate's electric pickup highlights.
