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Manufacturing growth across Europe and the US slowed during July, the latter reporting the second-weakest month of activity since the recession, according to statistics.

Australia’s CSIRO has teamed-up with the US Energy Department Laboratory to explore ways to improve powder efficiency for use in titanium components.

Knights Apparel chief executive Joe Bozich will speak about ethical manufacturing at a public event today, hosted by the NSW Government and the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

The car industry has been given a new lease on life, with funding securing jobs for years to come – and it’s not just because our PM fancies herself in a yellow vest.

Nissan Motor Co will build a $USD2.0 billion manufacturing complex in Mexico, creating 3,000 jobs in the area and another 9,000 within the supply chain.

Thousands of jobs will be eliminated at Kraft Foods in the Unites States, as the company attempts to improve its below-estimates profits.

BAE Systems Australia and Rosebank Engineering will build two new facilities in South Australia after winning a $177 million contract to manufacture tail fins for the US government’s Joint Strike Fighter defence aircraft.

Austal has been awarded a $1.5 million contract to provide structural maintenance support for Sea Fighter (FSF-1), a US Navy Research Vessel.

The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has just completed its seventh year. The itch is supposed to begin in the seventh year. The fundamental issue is whether the relationship has been good for both parties.

Perth’s Quickstep Holdings Limited has secured a finance guarantee from the government’s Export Finance & Insurance Corporation (EFIC) to help export parts for Lockheed Martin’s US-based F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) defence vehicle project.

The future of the global printing and packaging industries is looking up, with unions committed to making working conditions better in developing countries, according to a print union member.

In this Q&A, Professor Sir Mike Gregory, Head of the Manufacturing and Management Division at the University of Cambridge, talks about the changing patterns of global manufacturing, the companies defining this new paradigm and the importance of these trends for Australia.

Lean manufacturing principles may not be all they’re cracked up to be, with a new report showing the cost savings achieved across factories in 2010 were considerably lower than their targets.

Watch the engineers (is that what you’d call them?) at LEGO make a life-size 2012 Ford Explorer model out of LEGO bricks in less than 90 seconds! OK, so there is time-lapse photography at play here. But still, we think it’s pretty incredible. A little something for the child-manufacturer in all of us!

The government’s commitment to improving Australia’s anti-dumping regulations is a welcome act of support for local suppliers doing it tough on the export market. But when teamed with talks of local content mandates in the resources sector, is this beginning to smack of protectionist policy from a government so hell-bent against it?

Holden and GM are deciding whether or not to trash their lucrative Commodore export program as a result of import tax increases in Brazil.

Brazil’s finance minister has announced a 30-point increase in the country’s industrial-product tax on cars, raising concern for some Australian automotive exporters.

After months of banging on about how low the manufacturing industry is feeling over how high the Aussie dollar is getting, today’s news that it has suddenly fallen to a 10-month low against the US dollar is a beacon in the night for our manufacturing businesses.